Overview

• The Hamburg Regional Court dismissed a defense motion alleging judicial bias, keeping proceedings on track after the summer break.
• Defendants had sought to suspend the trial to review voluminous new files and parallel case materials, but the court ruled that essential documents were already available.
• Christina Block testified on July 25 that she neither ordered nor knew about the New Year’s Eve 2023/24 abduction of her children.
• Block and six co-defendants face aggravated child abduction charges for allegedly commissioning men to kidnap her then 10- and 13-year-old children from their father’s custody in Denmark.
• Proceedings are scheduled to resume on August 15 after the summer recess.