Man Who Shot Pope Gets 7 More Years
From Times Wire Reports
A Turkish court sentenced Mehmet Ali Agca, the gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981, to seven years in jail for two robberies in the 1970s. Agca’s sentence will be added to nine years he has left on another he is serving for the 1979 slaying of a journalist. Agca was returned to Turkey in June after a pardon from Italy. Today, Turkish police entered prisons across the country to end a hunger strike by more than 1,000 mainly leftist inmates over plans to transfer them to small cells.
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