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Pope gunman to be released from prison

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Lawyer says the Turkish man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981 is set to be released from prison after completing his sentence for crimes committed in Turkey.

 

Lawyer Gokay Gultekin says Mehmet Ali Agca, who spent more than 29 years in prison, will be immediately taken to a military facility and than 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." (AP)

 

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