Private detective Tamer Bakiner has years of experience with so-called child returns in custody disputes. He explains how the business behind it works – and why he would never have taken on the Block case.
Steakhouse heiress Christina Block and her ex-husband Stephan Hensel have been arguing over two of their children for years. Now the two minors were kidnapped on New Year’s Eve. They were with their father in Denmark when they were pulled into a car and driven away. A short time later they appeared again at their mother’s home in Hamburg, where, according to the police, they were “apparently physically well” at the end. Block had previously accused her ex-husband of kidnapping the two of them for a long time; in 2021, the Hamburg Higher Regional Court granted the mother the sole right to determine where to stay with shared custody.