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Christina Block’s Defense Cites Private Security Firm Ahead of Hamburg Kidnapping Trial

She rejects earlier claims implicating her late mother, attributing the Dec. 31 abduction to a private security outfit acting on its own.

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Block House-Gründer Eugen Block, Tochter Christina Block und deren Lebensgefährte Gerhard Delling (v.l.)
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Overview

  • The Hamburg Regional Court will begin the trial of Christina Block and her partner, former sports presenter Gerhard Delling, on July 11 on charges related to the New Year’s Eve 2023 abduction of Block’s two children from Denmark.
  • Ingo Bott, Block’s newly appointed defense counsel, argues that employees of a private Sicherheitsfirma independently orchestrated the kidnapping without instructions from Block or her late mother.
  • Block’s 14-year-old daughter, Klara, is set to testify that she feared for her father’s life during the abduction, and her allegations have drawn scrutiny to youth welfare services.
  • A formal complaint has been lodged against a Hamburg youth welfare official for alleged negligence after the children were returned to their father earlier this year.
  • Since a Danish court granted sole custody to their father on May 1, the siblings have remained under his care in Denmark as the Hamburg trial approaches.