Overview

• The court resumed its detailed examination of Block, with early exchanges after her lawyer objected to questions about diary entries.
• Block told the court she learned only days later from media reports that force was allegedly used, saying she did not question her children immediately to let them rest.
• She described being collected in Karlsruhe and driven to a farm near Pforzheim for the reunion, stating masked men were present and the host family was unknown to her.
• The defense argues the auto‑transcribed diary on her phone is exculpatory and contends seized IT materials are inadmissible, requesting a ruling from the chamber.
• Prosecutors allege operatives from the security firm Cyber Cupula abducted the children, gagged them with tape and bound the daughter, and seven defendants including partner Gerhard Delling deny the charges.