Man who shot Pope John Paul II freed
p2pnet news view | Crime:- Mehmet Ali Agca, who tried to assassinate Pope John Paul II, has been freed.
He was released from jail in Ankara, Turkey, “nearly 30 years after the attempt on the pope’s life in the Vatican,” says euronews, going on >>>
On May 13th 1981, Agca was in the crowd as John Paul II rode around St Peter’s Square at the start of his weekly audience.
He unleashed a volley of shots, hitting the pontiff several times. The pope was seriously wounded, but narrowly survived after spending weeks in hospital.
“He served 19 years in an Italian prison before being pardoned and released on the pope’s initiative in 2000,” says the story. “He was then extradited to Turkey to serve jail terms in his home country for crimes including murder.”
Agca, now 52, “waved to a throng of journalists as he was driven to a military hospital to be assessed for compulsory military service, although a 2006 military hospital report declared him unfit for military service because of a ’severe anti-social personality disorder’,” says the Guardian, adding:
“In a statement distributed by his lawyer outside the prison in Sincan, on the outskirts of Ankara, the Turkish capital, Agca declared: ‘I proclaim the end of the world. All the world will be destroyed in this century. Every human being will die in this century … I am the Christ eternal’.”
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euronews – Pope’s attacker freed from prison, January 18, 2010
Guardian – Man who shot Pope John Paul II gets out of prison, January 18, 2010
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