Overview

• On the third day of the trial, Judge Isabel Hildebrandt dismissed requests to suspend proceedings and to access parallel case files involving Stephan Hensel
• The court lifted the 12-year-old son’s status as a co-plaintiff, narrowing the children’s formal role in today’s hearings
• Christina Block delivered a multi-hour testimony asserting she did not commission the Silvester 2023 abduction and was unaware of any plan to seize her two youngest children
• Prosecutors allege that operatives from Israeli security firm Cyber Cupula acted at Block’s instigation to forcibly transfer her then 10- and 13-year-old children from Denmark to Germany
• After today’s rulings, the court will reconvene in mid-August to hear additional witnesses and examine further evidence