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Would-be assassin wants to visit tomb of St. John Paul II
December 16, 2014
Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who shot and wounded St. John Paul II in 1981, now says that he wants to visit the grave of the late Pontiff.
Agca, who spent 19 years in Italian prisons before being deported to his native Turkey, has been denied a visa to travel to Italy. But he claims that he wants to pay his respects at the tomb of the Pope who, after the shooting, came to visit him in a Rome prison cell.
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