Block House steak chain heiress Christina Block is in court accused of masterminding a cross-border kidnapping. She and ex-TV host Gerhard Delling deny snatching her children from Denmark after a bitter custody fight.
A German steakhouse heiress has been accused of hiring Israeli spies to kidnap her children from their father in Denmark, in a long-running custody battle.

Christina Block, heiress of the Block House steak chain, which has 53 restaurants across Europe, hired Cyber Cupula, a private security firm run by former Israeli soldier David Barkay and around 20 others, to snatch her two children on New Year’s Eve 2023 from the Danish town of Gråsten, Die Zeit reported.

It followed a bitter legal battle between Ms Block and Stephan Hensel, the children’s father, sparked by their refusal to return to their mother during a visit to their father in Denmark.