On New Year’s Eve, the children of German steakhouse heiress Christina Block were kidnapped from Denmark after the child’s father and the millionaire’s ex-husband were gunned down. Klara (13) and Theodor (10) then appeared at their mother’s house in Hamburg – there is now a European arrest warrant against the entrepreneur, German media report.
The spectacular child kidnapping that took place just minutes after the start of the new year in Gravenstein, Denmark, made international headlines. Block’s ex-husband Stephan Hensel was allegedly attacked and knocked down, after which the 13-year-old and the ten-year-old were forced into two rental cars and taken across the nearby German border.
Is the tide turning for the millionaire?
When the children came into the care of their mother, the incident initially seemed to have no consequences for Block, as the entrepreneur has custody of Klara and Theodor in Germany. Her ex-husband did not return them after a joint holiday and has lived with them in Denmark ever since. But now the tide may have turned: as “Bild” reported, Danish authorities issued a European arrest warrant for Block and sent it to the Hamburg State Criminal Police.
As the newspaper further reports, the arrest warrant was eventually converted by the Public Prosecution Service into a so-called “residence warrant”. This stipulates that Block must always inform the authorities of her whereabouts. There is no official confirmation of this: “We do not comment on the case at the moment, the assessment of the entire case is ongoing,” Chief Public Prosecutor Mia Sperling-Karstens told “Bild”.
Custody battle lasts ten years
The child abduction is a temporary climax in a war that has been going on for about ten years over the custody of the children of the heiress of the steakhouse chain ‘Block House’ and Hensel. The eldest daughter Johanna (18) would voluntarily go to live with her father, 15-year-old Greta lives with her mother. Klara and Theodor have been working at Hensel since 2021 after he stopped publishing it. Although Block was granted the right to determine his place of residence by the Hamburg High Court, the Danish authorities did not respond. They did not want to enforce the verdict from Germany.
Source: Krone
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