Overview
- On day 38 of the Hamburg proceedings, two criminal investigators testified that they first treated Christina Block as potentially endangered after Danish police asked them to inform her of the New Year’s Day 2024 abduction.
- Officers said efforts to find her included checks at her home, the Grand Elysée hotel and her father’s address, as well as an attempted phone location search that appeared to place her device at her residence.
- Investigators reported that navigation systems in rental cars later returned to the airport listed the Grand Elysée as the last destination, after which a case note was entered recording suspicion of instigation to deprive the children of liberty.
- Defense lawyer Ingo Bott argued the testimony undercut any claim of a planned abduction, citing Block’s presence at the hotel and at home, criticized the pace of police contact, and rejected a prior witness’s assertion about a coded alert.
- A second officer recounted contacts with partner Gerhard Delling, who offered a house key and accompanied a check at Block’s home, while a co‑defendant’s counsel pressed for clearer charges and the court noted key Israeli witnesses cannot currently travel.