Bitter words from the Block subsidiary: “Nobody will believe me”

Hamburg – It was the 58th day of the trial against Christina Block. And once again Merle B. (44) was on the witness stand. The head of the investigation reported to the Hamburg regional court about a moving conversation with her daughter Klara. The detective reports bitter words from the girl, who was 13 years old at the time. How touched she was by it. And how much they stuck with her.

Steakhouse heiress Christina Block is accused of… Kidnapping of her children Klara and Theodor commissioned by an Israeli security company. In the process before District Court Hamburg denies this.

According to the police officer, Klara: “Nobody believes me anyway.”

On Wednesday it was Investigator Melanie B. was questioned again as a witness. She reported on an encounter with Klara in the house of entrepreneur Christina Block after the kidnapping of the children from Denmark on January 3, 2024, during which the police should not speak to the children at the request of Christina Block.

The detective said that Klara Hensel spoke out loud to herself and asked her: “What do you think? Why didn’t I say on the first visit that I didn’t want to be there and didn’t even say ‘Help me, get me out of here’? Because no one will believe me anyway.”

Attorney Dr. Marko Voss objected that the description could not be found in the files. He accused the witness of introducing this anecdote even though it “contributed nothing to the matter.”

Lawyer irritates with legal assessment

Voss’ statements about the legal assessment of the violent kidnapping of the children also caused irritation in the courtroom. The criminal defense attorney for the co-accused family lawyer Dr. Andreas Costard (64) suggested examining whether “some physical coercion might have been justified in a family law context.” Voss literally said that it should be examined whether “simple physical force” could have been permissible to get the children into a vehicle.

In addition, he was of the opinion that short-term (violent) detention of the Kindsvaters Stephan Hensel Given the previous history (he means that he illegally brought the children to Denmark in August 2021), this could be legally assessed differently – and thus legitimized the use of force.

The statements are likely to further inflame the already highly emotional process. The focus remains on the question of who is responsible for the forcible repatriation of the children from Denmark – and what role the individual defendants played in it.