Court rules that suspect in Madeleine McCann disappearance can leave Germany

A man under investigation in the 2007 disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann is allowed to leave Germany, a court said Monday, overturning one of the conditions under which he was released after serving a sentence in an unrelated case. The German national, who has been identified by media as Christian Brückner, was released in mid-September after serving a sentence that stemmed from his 2019 conviction for the rape of a 72-year-old American woman in Portugal. A court in Hildesheim at the time imposed conditions for a five-year period, including that he wear an electronic ankle monitor and report regularly to probation services and remain resident in Germany.