The Hamburg entrepreneur Christina Block has that
Custody lost for their two children. Her lawyer, Elisabeth Unger, confirmed to the dpa news agency that a court in Sønderborg, Denmark, was the sole custody of the eleven-year-old son and the 14-year-old daughter living in Denmark.
According to a report, the father had so far only had the provisional sole custody. The court has now also withdrawn the right of access to the mother. As Unger announced, the decision was made on May 1st. Whether and how her client legally against the judgment in Denmark The lawyer did not say.
As a rule, Danish courts do not express custody cases like this. The court in Sønderborg did not want to confirm or deny the information at the request of the dpa news agency.
Children kidnapped on New Year’s Eve
The custody dispute had made headlines in Germany after the two children were kidnapped on New Year’s Eve of the past year. In this context, criminal proceedings in Germany are still in the room.
It was only on April 25 that the Hamburg public prosecutor had announced that it had raised the night of January 1, 2024 against block and six more accused charges for the alleged kidnapping of the two children from Denmark. In cooperation with a 62-year-old German, the mother is said to have given the order to violently deprive her daughter and son of the father’s care.
Procedure also runs against the father
According to investigations, Block, together with the 62-year-old co-accused, has caused her daughter and son-born in 2010 and 2013-to be brought to Germany. The children have lived with the father in Gravenstein in Danish near the border since summer 2021. Accordingly, he had not brought the children back against a visiting regulation. The right of residence was then granted the mother alone in October 2021.
A process of withdrawal of minors also runs against the father of the children. In 2021 he had opposed a court decision to bring the children back to the mother.
The presumption of innocence applies until a final conviction. The 52-year-old is the daughter of the founder of the Steakhaus chain Block House, Eugen Block.
