The case against Christina Block is being extended again

The Hamburg trial surrounding the kidnapping of the Block children, which began in July 2025, could take even longer than expected. 15 new trial dates have been scheduled until February 24, 2027, a court spokeswoman said.

The chamber had previously planned hearings until December 18th. The trial before the Hamburg regional court had already been extended several times. There were always new twists in the case that delayed the start of the pleadings. There have already been 84 days of negotiations.

This week, the defense and prosecution had already exchanged blows over numerous new evidence applications. The representative of the prosecution criticized the “delaying of the process”. Lawyer Ingo Bott, who defends the mother of the two children, Christina Block, rejected the accusation as absurd. All of this is important for finding the truth, because the applications show a lot of exculpatory evidence.

Shortly before a deadline set for October 28th, 860 pages of applications were received by the Hamburg Regional Court. According to the presiding judge, 840 pages alone came from lawyer Ingo Bott. According to Bott, his new evidence applications are primarily about the geodata from Christina Block's cell phone. These proved that his client could not have been at the alleged meeting point in the “Grand Elysée” hotel at the time of an alleged meeting with the alleged kidnappers on December 28th or 29th, 2023.