ATTACK TO 30 YEARS OF POPE JOHN PAUL II
On Wednesday 13 May 1981 Pope John Paul II was the victim of an attack that today remains shrouded in mystery. Injured by a right-wing Turkish terrorist, many sectors were identified as responsible for having ordered the attack. fragments The attack on the pope, the magazine noted We , n º 243 of May 15, 1981.
"It's 17.14 Wednesday 13, Rome time. The special jeep Fiat gives the second round of the Plaza de San Pedro. John Paul II waves to the crowd in his usual public appearance Wednesday. You hear screams. John Paul II closed his arms with a gesture of pain. His white cassock stained with blood starts. 'They attack on the Pope' , crying, desperate, those who are closer. The image of the attack is recorded by the RAI (Italian Radio and Television), which then transmitting the image from the crowd. In the Plaza all is confusion. News agencies launch flash: The Pope was shot and wounded by a stranger in San Pedro.
Information comes from the lips of Romeo Pancirolli, Vatican press officer: 'Pope he says has been hurt. We do not know if his condition is serious' .
When the pope entered the car at full speed in the papal gardens, a young man is arrested in the crowd. The first version says that it is an African who shot Pope John Paul II.
The center of attention shifts to the suburbs of Rome, where the Gemelli hospital (home of the Catholic University of Medicine). John Paul II, without losing consciousness, is taken directly to the operating room. Professor Giacomo Castiglioni (head of surgery at the hospital) begins a four-hour operation (from 17.45 to 21.45). The rattle agency teletype information that speaks of a state preagónico. Conversely, the Vatican press office said: John Paul II was wounded by a bullet caliber 9. The projectile is not interested in vital organs. Came from the bottom up without causing other injuries. "
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At eight o'clock Wednesday night we are able to communicate by telephone with the director of the Gemelli hospital, Prof. Luigi Candia. "I met the Pope on the day after he began his pontificate " he says. I had met Paul VI, but never forget the impression I made this Polish pope with his amazing personal charisma ... Never thought I would see him again under these conditions. We knew that they brought and were prepared to receive it. We set the entire ninth floor to their attention. When I got out of the Red Cross ambulance, a large blood stain spreading across his abdomen. He was conscious and in the elevator that took him to the ninth floor told us 'How could they do ...' Professor Candia
could not talk anymore. Only mumbled a 'sorry'. About ten o'clock at night a hospital spokesman reported: 'John Paul II was wounded by three bullets, one in the abdominal area another on his right arm and another in the little finger of his left hand. It was cut 55 cm of intestine and was given a half liter of blood. So far there are grounds for hope. Your heart has shown signs of weakness. Exraordinariamente is a man stronger. "
While the Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, returned to Rome in the same plane that brought him to the United States, the attorney general of Rome, Achille Gallucci, questioned the aggressor. Is Mohamed Ali Agca, Turkish. Pope shot from the second row of pilgrims and then threw the weapon. Police said Agca is a right wing extremist killed in 1979 in Istanbul to the newspaper editor. It was learned that the Turkish police had alerted the security forces Italian and English on the possibility that the terrorist came to these countries. Behind the attack
hangs another political storm in Italy: Enrico Berlinguer communist Event blamed the chaos in the country.
learned that the aggressor, being arrested, yelled
I do not care. In my country I am condemned to death. "
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