Pope gunman wants to put assassination attempt behind him
11/01/2006 - 12:12:03The Turkish gunman who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981 wants to put the assassination attempt behind him after his release from prison this week, and wants to work for world peace, his lawyer said today.
“He says ‘I want to work extend peace and brotherhood to everyone, I want to work for democracy and culture’,” Mustafa Demirbag, the lawyer for Mehmet Ali Agca, said ahead of Agca’s release tomorrow.
A Turkish court last week decided to free Agca, saying he had completed his prison term in Turkey.
Agca was extradited to Turkey in 2000 after serving almost 20 years in prison in Italy for shooting and wounding the Pope in St Peter’s Square in Rome in 1981.
