Man who shot Pope freed from jail

The man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981 was released from prison today after completing his sentence for crimes committed in Turkey.

Man who shot Pope freed from jail

The man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981 was released from prison today after completing his sentence for crimes committed in Turkey.

Mehmet Ali Agca, who spent more than 29 years in prison, will be taken to a military facility and then to a hospital to renew a 2006 military hospital report which said he is not fit for obligatory military service because of "severe anti-social personality disorder", said Gokay Gultekin, his lawyer.

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