Defendant German entrepreneur and gastronome Christina Block (R) stands next to her lawyer Ingo Bott (2nd L) as in background can be seen co-defendant Gerhard Delling (2nd R) who is Block's partner and a former sports journalist, and his lawyer David Rieks (L), prior to the continuation of the trial over alleged child abduction at the District Court in Hamburg, northern Germany, on April 27, 2026. The public prosecutor's office accuses Block, heiress of a steakhouse chain, of ordering the abduction of her daughter, born in 2010, and her son, born in 2013. According to the indictment, the background to this is an escalating custody dispute over many years between Block and her former husband, who have four children together. (Photo by Christian Charisius / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)