Overview
- Judges plan to question two Block-group IT security staff in the morning and an LKA officer in the afternoon about standard penetration-testing procedures.
- Prosecutors allege Christina Block hired the Israeli firm Cyber Cupula to take two children from Denmark on New Year’s Eve 2023–24.
- Block maintains she commissioned only an IT security check at the Grand Elysée hotel and says the Israelis acted on their own regarding the retrieval.
- An Israeli co-defendant, 36, has confessed to taking part in the operation, which investigators say brought the children to Germany.
- Previous witnesses from the Block group, ex-CEO Stephan von B. and finance chief Michael K., contradicted Block’s account of any hotel IT contract and said key approvals could not be confirmed.