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The 10-year-old boy and the 13-year-old girl must therefore return to their father in Denmark, the court’s press office announced on Friday evening. The court decided on an urgent application filed by the father on Wednesday.
“This emergency measure is based on the assessment that a return of the children to their father would currently best suit the children’s best interests,” the statement said. The children were handed over to their father’s care on Friday.
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The father of the two children was attacked by unknown people 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 on Monday that they were investigating charges of bodily harm and deprivation of liberty.
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,” a police spokeswoman said on Thursday. The Hamburg public prosecutor’s office did not want to comment in more detail on its investigation on Friday.
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. 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 the court spokesman 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 order. The interim regulation should apply until a decision on the main case is made.
This so-called main proceedings has not yet been completed. In the first instance, the family court rejected both parents’ applications for custody on October 17, 2023, said Wantzen. 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.
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