Overview

• Block continues answering questions and maintains she did not order the New Year’s Eve 2023/24 abduction of her two children from Denmark.
• Prosecutors allege masked men seized the children and brought them to Germany, after which a higher court ordered their rapid return to the father.
• Defense lawyer Ingo Bott calls the phone’s auto-transcribed entries exculpatory and argues investigators mishandled IT evidence, asking judges to rule on its admissibility.
• The ex-husband’s counsel questioned Block on the fifth day, the session ended early after a pause, and further questioning is slated for Tuesday as the sixth day proceeds.
• The case includes several co-defendants—among them a 63-year-old lawyer, a 58-year-old security firm head, a 36-year-old Israeli in custody, and Block’s partner Gerhard Delling—with roughly 30 hearing days still scheduled.