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Juan María Fernández y Krohn had to answer for the murder attempt both under canon law and under Portuguese criminal law. Fernández y Krohn was convicted of attempted murder, and sentenced to six and a half years imprisonment. He received a further seven months in prison for contempt of court.
There were no attempted assassinations of the pope within Vatican City while the statute was in force. [6] It was already repealed by 1981, when Mehmet Ali Ağca attempted to assassinate Pope John Paul II , and in any case Ağca was tried by an Italian court rather than in the Vatican.
On 13 May 1981, in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, Pope John Paul II was shot and wounded by Mehmet Ali Ağca while he was entering the square. The Pope was struck twice and suffered severe blood loss. Ağca was apprehended immediately and later sentenced to life in prison by an Italian court. The Pope forgave Ağca for the assassination ...
A collection of popes have had violent deaths through the centuries. The circumstances have ranged from martyrdom (Pope Stephen I) to war (Lucius II), to an alleged beating by a jealous husband (Pope John XII). A number of other popes have died under circumstances that some believe to be murder, but for which definitive evidence has not been found. Martyr popes This list is incomplete ; you ...
Nazareno Gercorini, convicted of murder and robbery; beheaded in Civitavecchia (January 12, 1861). Gaetano Lucarelli, from Marino, aged 29, convicted of murder to get indirect revenge and died unrepentant in Marino (March 30, 1861). Cesare Locatelli, Roman, aged 37, convicted of premeditated murder, died in Via dei Cerchi (September 21, 1861).
Around the 10th anniversary of the killing, senior church members urged Fox in a letter to keep his word and to see the case be solved. Posadas's successor, Cardinal Juan Sandoval , is convinced the murder was politically motivated.
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Discrepancies in the Vatican's account of the events surrounding Pope John Paul I's death—its inaccurate statements about who found the body; [1] what he had been reading; when, where, and whether an autopsy could be carried out [1] [2] —produced a number of conspiracy theories, many associated with the Vatican Bank, which owned a large share in Banco Ambrosiano.