Turk fires shots in protest at visit of Pope Benedict

POLICE were last night questioning a man who fired shots into the air outside the Italian consulate in Istanbul to protest at the forthcoming visit by Pope Benedict XVI.

Turk fires shots in protest at visit of Pope Benedict
Fri, 03 Nov, 2006 - 00:00

The suspect told a television reporter he wanted to “strangle” the pontiff with his bare hands.

“I don’t want him here. If he was here now I would strangle him with my bare hands,” Ibrahim Ak, aged 26, told Turkey’s Dogan news agency cameraman as he was detained by police.

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