Christina Block’s children are back with their father after the kidnapping on New Year’s Eve. The steakhouse heiress has no understanding of this court decision.
“Blockhouse” heiress Christina Block was horrified by a Hamburg court’s decision that her children had to be returned to their father in Denmark. “I would never have thought that my children would be taken to the father who had previously illegally withheld the children without being heard,” she told “Bild”. “The courts clearly ruled that he had to return them. And he never followed through.”
At the same time, the 49-year-old denied being responsible for the child abduction. According to the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” (FAZ), one of her lawyers told the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” (FAZ) that his client “at no time gave any third party an order to force her beloved children from Denmark to Hamburg.”
Block is an “absolutely law-abiding personality” who is suffering “horribly” from the situation and is “psychologically affected”. It will probably be revealed who gave the order to bring the children from Denmark to Hamburg on New Year’s Eve. There are a “number of people” who viewed the removal of children from their mother as an “inhumane catastrophe” and repeatedly offered help.
Father happy about court decision
Last week, the “Hamburger Abendblatt” reported that Block had admitted to the senior public prosecutor in Hamburg that he had ordered the action on New Year’s Eve. The investigators did not want to comment officially. The police and public prosecutor’s office simply stated that they were still busy clarifying what happened. However, no further information will be provided at this time “to protect ongoing investigations and to protect personal rights.”
The daughter of the founder of the Block House restaurant chain, Eugen Block (83), told the “Hamburger Abendblatt” in November 2022 that the children regularly visited her father in Denmark after the divorce. At the end of August 2021, he picked up the children and kept them with him.
On October 27, 2021, the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court transferred the right of residence determination to the mother alone, as a court spokesman announced on Friday. At the same time, the father was obliged to return the children to the mother’s care. However, this was only an interim order. The interim regulation should apply until a decision on the main case is made.
The main proceedings have not yet been completed
According to Berlin family lawyer Peter Jungnatalh, Denmark is the only EU country that has not adopted two important legal regulations from the European Union. It does not automatically recognize family court decisions on custody in EU partner countries.
The so-called main proceedings have not yet been completed, the court spokesman said on Friday. In the first instance, on October 17, 2023, the family court rejected both parents’ applications for custody. The reason given was that the German courts no longer had international jurisdiction because the children’s lives had now become established in Denmark. An appeal has been lodged against this decision, which has not yet been decided.
According to the Danish police, unknown people took the two children with them on New Year’s Eve. Her father was attacked by unknown people in southern Denmark near the German border while he was on the way to the fireworks with the 10-year-old boy and the 13-year-old girl. The perpetrators fled with the two children in two cars. The Danish police said it then turned out that the children were with their mother in Hamburg.
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Quelle: t-online
Father filed an urgent application
The Hamburg police and representatives of the youth welfare office visited the family in Hamburg on Wednesday evening. “We were able to convince ourselves that the children are with Ms. Block and that they appear to be physically well,” said a police spokeswoman on Thursday.
According to the court, the father filed an urgent application on Wednesday – the court should order that the children return immediately. The Hanseatic Higher Regional Court agreed with this: the children must return to their father in Denmark, it announced on Friday evening. An interim order was issued.
2024-01-08 11:41:37
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