Overview

• On Israel’s Channel 12, the wanted man said he helped move Klara and Theodor Hensel from Denmark to Germany on New Year’s Eve 2023/24 and believed he was acting under German authority to return them to their mother.
• He claimed a former Mossad employee recruited him, that cars were rented with personal credit cards, and that the group later toasted success at a Hamburg hotel where Christina Block allegedly introduced herself.
• The Hamburg prosecutor’s office confirmed to BILD that the interviewee is the 42-year-old sought on an international arrest warrant, and a Munich lawyer has contacted authorities to discuss possible cooperation.
• Christina Block pleads not guilty in the ongoing Hamburg trial, while an Israeli co-defendant in custody previously described the operation in court as a rescue mission.
• Coverage notes that the children’s father, Stephan Hensel, was seriously injured during the incident and that three of Block’s four children currently live with him under a court order.