Defendant German entrepreneur and gastronome Christina Block (C-L) is seen next to her lawyer Ingo Bott (C-R) as Co-defendant German former sports journalist Gerhard Delling (front, R), his lawyer David Rieks (front, 2nd R), Presiding judge Isabel Hildebrandt (back, C) and other parties in the procedings are seen to the continuation of the trial over alleged child abduction at the Criminal Court building in Hamburg, northern Germany, on May 20, 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)