Pope’s Attacker Denied Leave to Attend Funeral
From Times Wire Reports
Authorities turned down, as expected, a request by the man who wounded Pope John Paul II in 1981 to leave prison and attend the pontiff’s funeral, his lawyer said.
The pope met with Mehmet Ali Agca in an Italian prison in 1983 and forgave him for the shooting. Agca was extradited to Turkey in 2000 after almost 20 years behind bars in Italy. Agca is serving a 17-year prison sentence in Istanbul for earlier crimes in Turkey.
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