Four bullets hit John Paul II, two of them lodging in his lower intestine, the others hitting his left hand and right arm.
(wikipedia)
AÄŸca was sentenced, in July 1981, to life imprisonment in Italy for the assassination attempt. Following his shooting, Pope John Paul II asked people to "pray for my brother (AÄŸca), whom I have sincerely forgiven."
Although AÄŸca had been quoted as saying that "to me [the Pope] was the incarnation of all that is capitalism", and had attempted to murder him, AÄŸca developed a friendship with the pontiff.
In 1983, he and AÄŸca met and spoke privately at the prison where AÄŸca was being held. The Pope was also in touch with AÄŸca's family over the years, meeting his mother in 1987 and his brother a decade later. After serving almost 20 years of a life sentence in prison in Italy, AÄŸca was pardoned by the then Italian president Carlo Azeglio Ciampi in June 2000 and deported to Turkey.
(wikipedia)Linkback:
https://tubagbohol.mikeligalig.com/index.php?topic=71425.0
Topic: 1981: The year the pope was shot (Read 1963 times)