| 22.11.200909:46 (GMT) | Polish investigators from the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) are intending to question Ali Agca, the Turkish citizen who is in Italian custody for the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II, Dziennik Gazeta Prawna reports.
Investigators from the Katowice branch of the IPN are waiting for paperwork to go through in order to be allowed to interrogate Agca. Italian police are expected to allow the Poles to interrogate Sergei Antonov, who was jailed for violating the Pope's rights in surveilling him before the shooting, and Omer Bagci, who provided Agca with a gun.
IPN investigators are eagerly awaiting the legal documents from Italian law enforcement, held up in a translation process that is expected to be finished by the end of the year.
“For us, the person currently in charge of the investigation has discovered some particularly meaningful things related to the shooting. Without a full testimony it will not be possible, or at least more complex, to find out what happened, formulate a hypotheses and confirm it,” says Ewa Koj, one of the IPN investigators on the case.
The Italian documents are about 4,000 pages of paperwork. Ali Agca's testimony amounts to 856 pages. IPN investigators have already heard testimonies from Polish witnesses.
The assasination attempt took place on May 13, 1981 in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City. The Pope was shot four times. Agca was arrested, tried in Italian courts, and sentenced to life imprisonment. It has been concluded since then that the Soviet KGB and Bulgarian Communist secret service was involved in the attempt.
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