Mysterious Disappearance of Heiress's Children Amid Custody Battle

Kidnapping for ransom or the epilogue of a troubled marital crisis? It's a complex mystery involving the New Year's Eve disappearance of two German children, thirteen-year-old Klara and her three-year younger brother Theodor, children of the German heiress Christina Block and her ex-husband, the Dane Stephan Hensel. On New Year's Eve, Stephan Hensel is watching the fireworks outside a restaurant in the Danish village of Gravenstein with his two younger children. Suddenly, according to Bild, there was an assault: several men allegedly beat the father and forced the children into a car before disappearing from the scene. The Danish police have confirmed the course of events. The German police are also looking for the rented vehicles, a Citroën DS7 Crossback and a Mercedes Class A, as they both had German license plates. But everyone seems to have disappeared into thin air. Christina Block is the daughter of the restaurateur Eugen Block, the man who brought steakhouses to Germany and founded the 'Block House' chain, a multimillion-dollar company that manages 54 restaurants worldwide. Block and Hensel divorced in 2014 and the businesswoman is now in a relationship with television presenter Gerhard Delling, a sports commentator and well-known face of German television. The ex-couple has four children and has been fighting for custody for years. After a holiday in Denmark, Hensel's adopted country, he kept the children Klara and Theodor, who are now kidnapped. A court in Hamburg ruled that the children had to be returned to Germany. However, a Danish court decided otherwise and granted Block only visitation rights. She is allowed to see the children only in the presence of a chaperone. 'At the time Christina reported me for child abduction,' Hensel said according to Focus. 'That's how our children were questioned by the police. The youth welfare office told me they had to go back to Germany. But what should a father do when it obviously isn't what they want?' At the moment there is no news of the two children and no trace of the two cars that took them away. Both the Danish police and that of Hamburg, who are investigating the case, are not ruling out any leads. It could be a family kidnapping or the action of a criminal gang that could ask for a ransom in the coming hours.