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In the custody dispute over two children of Hamburg entrepreneur Christina Block (50), the Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg has granted an urgent request from the father. The 10-year-old boy and the 13-year-old girl must therefore return to their father in Denmark, the court’s press service announced on Friday evening. “This emergency measure is based on the assessment that returning the children to their father would be in the best interests of the children at this time,” the statement said. The children were transferred to the care of their father on Friday.

The father of two children was attacked by strangers in southern Denmark on New Year’s Eve. According to the Danish police, the perpetrators took the 10-year-old boy and the 13-year-old girl in a car. The Danish police announced last Monday that they were being investigated for bodily harm and deprivation of liberty. The father then submitted an urgent request to the Higher Regional Court on Wednesday.

The two parents 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, as the court spokesperson further announced. 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.

According to the announcement, in Friday’s emergency decision, the court took into account the fact that the children had been in their father’s life center for almost 2.5 years and were torn away from their environment there under extremely stressful circumstances, according to the credible evidence. facts. by the father. (sda/dpa)