Overview

• A managing director of Hamburg port management is scheduled to testify as a witness, with proceedings due to start at 9:30 a.m. local time.
• The session marks the 17th of 53 planned trial days in a high-security courtroom at the Hamburg Landgericht.
• At the previous hearing, a security consultant testified that he surveilled the children in Denmark, was discovered, and outlined a plan to transport them over the Baltic Sea to Germany.
• The same witness said he had been hired by patriarch Eugen Block, who is not charged in the case.
• Seven defendants are on trial, including restaurateur Christina Block, accused of ordering the abduction, and her partner Gerhard Delling, accused of aiding it; both deny the allegations.