Overview
- Prosecutors say the two youngest children were taken from their father's home in Denmark on New Year's Eve 2023/24, sheltered on a Baden-Württemberg farm, brought to Hamburg and then returned to their father after a court order.
- Children’s psychologist Dr. Stefan Rücker has resumed testimony about a written 'Rückführungskonzept' he prepared for Christina Block that shares specific elements with the later transfer, a point prosecutors highlight as potentially linking advice to action.
- The key Israeli witness Keren T. (alias "Olga") gave multi-day testimony that defence teams now call contradictory, and Block’s lawyers told the court that their client had no knowledge of any planned abduction.
- The Hamburg public prosecutor has reopened investigations into three people in the Baden-Württemberg circle who sheltered the children, and an independent expert, Mareike Schüler-Springorum, is due to present a report on the children’s psychological state.
- The long-running trial has reached its 54th–55th hearing days, is scheduled through 18 December 2026, and now hinges on contested evidence, witness credibility and the expert assessment of harm to the children, who are formal 'silent' co-plaintiffs.