Police say Block children are back with their father in Denmark

In the custody dispute over two children of Hamburg entrepreneur Christina Block, the 10-year-old boy and the 13-year-old girl are back in Denmark with their father. The Danish police announced this on Saturday.

The police maintain close contact with the family about their safety. The investigation into bodily harm and false imprisonment continued.

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. It then turned out that the children were with their mother in Hamburg, according to the Danish police.

On Friday, the Hanze Higher Regional Court in Hamburg granted an urgent request from the father. The children were subsequently returned to his care.

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 father in Denmark after the divorce. He picked up the children at the end of August 2021 and kept them with him. (sda/dpa)