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Pope John Paul II (C) blesses followers a few seconds before being shot and seriously wounded 13 May 1981 at Saint Peter's square by a Turkish extremist Mehmet Ali Agca. Agca was jailed for 19 years in Italy for the attack on the Pope, which left the head of the Roman Catholic church seriously wounded. He was pardoned by the Italian president in June 2000, and extradited back to Turkey where he was jailed for the 1979 attacks