In the custody dispute over two children of Hamburg entrepreneur Christina Block (50), the 10-year-old boy and the 13-year-old girl are back in Denmark. But they are not with their father, but at a ‘neutral stopover’, it was said on Saturday. No one knows how the children are doing after the shocking events.
According to information from RTL, the children were initially placed in a Danish youth institution, where children and young people from 0 to 17 years old are cared for who have experienced sexual or violent (physical and/or psychological) abuse. It is a ‘neutral stopover’.
Father attacked and children kidnapped
Block’s 49-year-old ex-husband was attacked by unknown people in southern Denmark on New Year’s Eve. According to the Danish police, the perpetrators took the boy and the girl. They therefore fled in two cars. Danish police said it later emerged that the children were with their mother in Hamburg.
Children not back
On Friday, the Hanze Higher Regional Court in Hamburg granted an urgent request from the father. The children were subsequently returned to his care. On Saturday, they said they returned to his home.
Christina Block and her ex-husband have been fighting in court over custody for more than two years. In November 2022, the daughter of the founder of the Block House restaurant chain, Eugen Block (83), told the ‘Hamburger Abendblatt’ that the children had regularly visited her ex-husband in Denmark after the divorce. He picked up the children at the end of August 2021 and kept them with him.
On October 27, 2021, the Hanze Higher Regional Court transferred the determination of the right of residence only to the mother. At the same time, the father was obliged to return the children to the mother’s care. However, this was only an interim decision. The interim arrangement should apply until a decision in the main case has been taken.
Procedure not completed
However, this so-called main procedure has not yet been completed. At first instance, the family court rejected the requests for custody of both parents on October 17, 2023.
The reason given was that the German courts no longer had international jurisdiction because the children’s lives had now been established in Denmark. An appeal has been lodged against this decision, on which no decision has yet been made.
Source: Krone
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