Overview

• The Hamburg regional court set a 9:30 a.m. Tuesday session to continue presiding judge Isabel Hildebrandt’s detailed questioning.
• Block denies commissioning any retrieval and says talks with advisers and security firms were hypothetical, including a proposed boat trip across the Flensburg Fjord.
• According to the indictment, several employees of a security company took the then 10-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter to Germany on New Year’s Eve 2023/24.
• Four days later the Higher Regional Court ordered the children returned to their father.
• Block’s partner, former sports presenter Gerhard Delling, is charged with aiding the operation, and he and the other defendants deny guilt.