Overview
- The Hamburg court said Monday that two defendants abroad could not fly back due to a pilots’ strike, so it canceled Tuesday’s hearing.
- The next session is set for Monday, 20 April, which extends the break in proceedings to three weeks.
- Planned questioning of additional suspects in Israel cannot proceed because of the war involving Iran, which is slowing the flow of key testimony.
- Former BND chief August Hanning filed a supervisory complaint after searches of his home and linked security firms in September; he is not a defendant and has refused to testify as a summoned witness.
- Prosecutors accuse entrepreneur Christina Block of hiring an Israeli security firm to take her two children from their father’s home in Denmark on New Year’s 2023/24, a claim she denies.