Overview

• Defense teams are scheduled to address the parents’ testimony at 9:30 a.m. as the 15th hearing opens at the Hamburg Regional Court.
• Four witnesses have been summoned for today’s session, including three from Denmark and an employee of a car-rental company.
• Christina Block maintains she neither ordered nor wanted the transfer, while ex-husband Stephan Hensel described a New Year’s Eve abduction and an assault on him.
• The retrieval is reported to have been carried out by an Israeli security firm, and a detained Israeli co-defendant has admitted involvement and apologized to the children and to Hensel.
• The children were returned to their father by court order four days later, and the court is expected to hear them as witnesses with the conditions still undecided.