Overview

• On day six of the trial, Block declined to answer further questions from her ex-husband’s lawyer, citing her right to remain silent, as the presiding judge allowed the questioning to continue despite defense objections.
• After interruptions and chamber deliberations, the court adopted a procedure that let the lawyer present a bundled catalog of questions, with parts to be reviewed and potentially submitted in writing for later responses.
• The complainant’s lawyer pressed lines of inquiry about possible contacts with former security chiefs August Hanning and Ya’akov Peri and why abductors allegedly had the children’s belongings in advance, while the court has yet to decide whether the daughter will testify.
• Hensel’s attorneys have filed a defamation complaint against co-defendant Gerhard Delling over alleged fabricated pedophilia claims; prosecutors say no investigation was opened against Hensel for child pornography, and Delling denies wrongdoing.
• Prosecutors accuse Block of commissioning an Israeli security team to seize her 10- and 13-year-old from their father in Denmark on New Year’s Eve 2023/24; the children were ordered back to their father four days later, all defendants plead not guilty, and the case continues Thursday with most accused free except one Israeli in custody.