Posted on 12/27/2014 10:59:15 AM PST by Steelfish
27 December 2014
Pope Gunman Mehmet Ali Agca Visits John Paul II's Grave
The Turkish man who shot and injured former Pope John Paul II in 1981 has laid flowers on the late pontiff's tomb in the Vatican.
Mehmet Ali Agca told police he felt he needed to make the gesture, Italian media report.
It comes 31 years to the day that the Pope visited Agca in prison and forgave him for the attempt on his life.
Agca served 19 years in an Italian jail for shooting the Pope twice at close range. His motive remains a mystery.
He spent another 10 years in prison in Turkey on charges related to the earlier murder of a newspaper editor.
Agca, 56, laid white roses at the tomb of the late Pope on Saturday, in his first visit to the Vatican since his attack on John Paul II on 13 May 1981.
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“His motive remains a mystery”
Stupid.
The motive is obvious. Membership in a middle eastern death cult which teaches hatred for Christians, and that killing one gets you to “paradise.”
It was also thought that he had a connection with the KGB.
How the hell did he get back into Italy?
Placing roses on his grave.... Well that makes it all better .... /s
"He has put flowers on the tomb of John Paul II. I think that is enough," Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi told La Repubblica newspaper.
“...former Pope John Paul II...”
I’ve seen “former President Abraham Lincoln” in news stories.
How many CURRENT Popes are in a TOMB?
He was a Soviet tool.
His Muslim roots may have made him open to being used.
It wasn’t his independent idea.
By way, I believe, of the Bulgarian secret police - or KGB equivalent - , through which the KGB often did its dirty work.
every day that he is not in jail is a gift from pope john Paul second. I believe in forgiveness and that the shooter could have a change in heart but that does not stop the fact that he tried to kill someone and deserves to be locked up.
Yes. Only a mystery to hypocrites.
The PR campaign to cover for Islam’s conquest of the West continues apace, I see.
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