Pope Assailant to Remain Behind Bars Till 2010

World | January 23, 2006, Monday // 00:00

Mehmet Ali Agca, the man who attempted to kill Pope John Paul II and murdered a prominent Turkish journalist, will be released from prison in 2010, Anatolia news agency reported. On Friday a court ruled that Agca should return to prison to serve more time for killing a journalist and for other crimes committed in Turkey. The ruling by a panel of judges on an appeals court came eight days after Agca, 48, was released from an Istanbul prison. He served 19 years in prison in Italy for shooting the pope on May 13, 1981, and 5 1/2 years of a 10-year sentence in Turkey for the murder of journalist Abdi Ipekci in 1979. In ordering his release, the local court had counted the time served in Italy, but the decision outraged many Turks.

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