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A police mug shot of Christian Brueckner, a suspect in the disappearance of three-year-old Madeleine McCann in 2007, taken when Brueckner was arrested and extradited to Germany for raping a 72-year-old American woman, in Milan, Italy, in 2018. Carabinieri Milano via Getty Images
BERLIN—A German federal court has dismissed an appeal against the rape conviction of a man who is currently also being investigated over the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann.
The court in Karlsruhe said on Friday it had rejected the appeal by Christian Brueckner against his conviction last year for the 2005 rape of a 72-year-old American woman in Portugal and confirmed the seven-year sentence.
