Overview

• Hamburg investigators cite a January 3, 2024 remark by Christina Block—“Ich mache eine Rückführung, er macht eine Entführung”—as a potential partial confession, according to case files reported by FOCUS.
• Prosecutors list charges including aggravated child abduction, dangerous bodily harm, unlawful detention and aggravated abuse of dependents, with a multi-year prison term possible if convicted.
• The evidentiary record described by investigators spans DNA and fiber traces, financial and phone data, recovered Signal chats, surveillance footage and device searches, including an iPad query on trauma topics on December 31, 2023.
• Business Insider publishes documents showing a Sønderborg family court in February 2023 declined to order the children’s return but granted supervised contact, with an April 2023 meeting later dropped over contested security concerns tied to a purported visitor known as “Uzi M.”
• Parallel reporting notes widening inquiries into private operators, including new probes of ex-LKA officer Thorsten M. and former BND chief August Hanning, as well as chats pointing to efforts to discredit Block’s ex-partner; upcoming court dates are set for September 29 and October 1, when Block is expected to speak.