The World - News from Dec. 20, 1987
An Italian appeals court upheld the acquittals of three Bulgarians and two Turks on charges they plotted to assassinate Pope John Paul II. As a lower court did in 1986, the panel found there was insufficient evidence to convict the defendants in an alleged Communist Bloc plot. The original trial was based largely on accusations by Mehmet Ali Agca, a Turk now serving a life term for shooting and severely wounding the Pope in St. Peter’s Square in 1981.
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