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The entrepreneur Christina Block at a press conference.
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On New Year's Eve, unknown people brought two children of Hamburg entrepreneur Christina Block from Denmark to Germany.
Now the family's hotel was searched again.
For what reason?
Hamburg - In connection with the Block family's custody dispute, the police again searched a hotel belonging to the family and the company headquarters in Hamburg on Thursday.
The Hamburg public prosecutor's office and a spokeswoman for the block group confirmed this on Friday.
The “Bild” newspaper had previously reported.
“In the course of investigations into the forcible transport of two of the accused Block's children to Germany, the public prosecutor's office executed search warrants from the Hamburg District Court on Thursday at Block Systems GmbH and at the Grand Hotel Elysée Hamburg.
The measure served to find further evidence.
Further information is currently not possible,” the public prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
Just a few days ago, the European arrest warrant against Hamburg entrepreneur Christina Block (50) was lifted, according to her lawyer.
The Hamburg public prosecutor's office did not want to comment on the cancellation of the arrest warrant.
According to previous information from the authority, Christina Block and other people are being investigated on suspicion of kidnapping minors and other crimes.
On January 12th, the public prosecutor's office had the entrepreneur's home searched.
Investigators also looked for evidence at the Hotel Elysée, which belongs to the Block House Group, and at the company headquarters in Langenhorn.
On New Year's Eve, unknown people brought two of the Hamburg entrepreneur's children from Denmark to Germany.
After a few days with their mother, they returned to Denmark following a court decision.
Christina Block and her ex-husband (49) have been fighting in court for years over custody of the two younger of their four children.
They have been living with their father in Denmark for more than two years, although the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg had provisionally transferred the right of residence to their mother in October 2021.
However, last February 19, the same court ruled that German courts no longer had jurisdiction.
The children now have their permanent home in Denmark.
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