Overview
- Investigators cite a January 3, 2024 exchange in which Christina Block reportedly said, “Ich mache eine Rückführung, er macht eine Entführung,” which they interpret as a spontaneous partial confession.
- FOCUS online reports recovered evidence including a deleted Signal chat, an iPad search on trauma topics from the morning of December 31, 2023, and messages to partner Gerhard Delling that investigators view as incriminating.
- Block denies commissioning the New Year’s Eve 2023/24 transfer of her children from Denmark to Germany; the indictment lists aggravated child abduction and related violent offenses, and the children were found safe about 113 hours later in Hamburg.
- Business Insider publishes an April 28, 2023 email in which Block rejects claims she hired a journalist and insists on legal avenues, plus a lawyer’s memo alleging the father’s attorney proposed she waive return rights and buy a house in Denmark to regain contact.
- Sächsische Zeitung reports chats indicating adviser Thorsten M. helped plan efforts to discredit the father, as Hamburg prosecutors investigate him and former BND chief August Hanning, with further court hearings set for September 29 and October 1.