Overview

• Main proceedings open July 11 at the Hamburg Regional Court after admission of charges including severe abduction, dangerous bodily harm and false imprisonment.
• Christina Block and seven others, including partner Gerhard Delling, face allegations of orchestrating the forced removal of their two youngest children from Denmark to Germany.
• The court scheduled 37 hearing days between July 11 and December 23, with a verdict expected at the final session.
• Prosecutors accuse masked assailants of assaulting the father, restraining the children with tape and transporting them across the border under Block’s direction.
• Both defendants deny wrongdoing and maintain innocence as the trial lays bare a bitter custody battle that has raged for over a decade.