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Man Forces Entry Into Vatican

On Thursday evening, a man with serious psychiatric problems, aged about 40, drove with his car past two checkpoints and entered the Vatican at high speed .

The gendarmerie inspector standing guard at the gate, fired a shot at the front tyres of the car, but it drove on. The gendarmes raised the alarm and blocked access to the back of St. Peter's.

The madman managed to reach the Damasus courtyard of the Apostolic Palace and was arrested there.

Picture: © Peter Nijenhuis, CC BY-NC-ND, #newsCqxvuzosgt

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john333
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Those guards are very intimidating in those pajamas.
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Vatican police fired at car trying to enter Vatican at high speed. The driver made it all the way to the courtyard of the Apostolic Palace before being apprehended. Vatican doctors say he was agitated. He's still in a Vatican jail cell
Sally Dorman
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So from now on it's OK to open fire on illegal immigrants? Just checking.
Sandy Barrett
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The man who forced his way into Vatican City yesterday, driving through two security checkpoints at high speed, has been identified as 40-year-old Simone Baldovino, an Italian
frawley
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when the problems are serious it is not too hard
Louis IX
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How are officials always able to make a clinical diagnosis so quickly?
Seabass
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That's a good question!
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