14 November 2006
TURKEY: PRIEST'S KILLER SAYS HE MEANT TO SHOOT JESUS ICON
(adnki.com) A 16-year-old Turkish boy convicted of the murder of an Italian...Istanbul, 14 Nov. (AKI) - A 16-year-old Turkish boy convicted of the murder of an Italian Roman Catholic priest in February, said at his trial that he shot the priest by mistake while aiming at an icon of Jesus Christ on a wall of the church in the Black Sea city of Trabzon where the killing took place. The testimony was included in a document released on Tuesday by Turkish judicial authorities which they said contained the "reasoned decision" behind the 18 years and 10 months prison sentence handed down to the boy last month.
"I meant to shout ‘Allah-u Aqbar’ (Allah is Great) and frighten the priest by shooting the Jesus icon on the wall. The priest was praying at that moment. I closed my eyes with my hand and fired the gun with my other hand. When I realised that I shot the priest, I was shocked, and I asked myself ‘Did I kill the man?’ and felt deep regret”, said the boy according to an excerpt of his testimony published by the daily Sabah.
The Trabzon court found the boy - identified because of his age only as O.A. - guilty of the murder of Father Andrea Santoro, 60 and rejected the boy's claim that the shooting was accidental because he had shot the gun twice.
While the boy's conviction for "planned killing", "carrying an unlicenced gun" and "destruction of public security" - warrented a life sentence, the penalty was reduced on account of his age, the court said.
The boy's parents have appealed against the sentence.
Santoro, was shot twice from behind on 5 February hours after mass at his Santa Maria Church in Trabzon. Police picked up the boy three days after the murder which took place at the height of worldwide protests by Muslims against the publishing first in Denmark and then in several other Western nations of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
It is not clear whether Santoro's murder was in anyway linked to the cartoon row.
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First off I dont believe he meant to shoot the icon instead of the priest. Second of all why are you in a holy place with a gun shooting anyway? There is a mosque near me should I go in and shoot at their intricate wall designs in protest of all the killings done in the name of Islam recently. Muslims call us kafir but the true kafir are those who kill innocent Christians and jews and other nonmuslims.
Posted by: irony | 15 November 2006
Christian Crimes against Humanity
"But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me."
– Luke 19.27 *
All sects of heretics are condemned and various punishments are appointed for them and their accomplices."
--Pope Alexander IV (1254-61)
Catholic extermination camps
Surprisingly few know that Nazi extermination camps in World War II were by no means the only ones in Europe at the time. In the years 1942-1943 also in Croatia existed numerous extermination camps, run by Catholic Ustasha under their dictator Ante Paveliç, a practicing Catholic and regular visitor to the then pope. There were even concentration camps exclusively for children! In these camps - the most notorious was Jasenovac, headed by a Franciscan friar - orthodox-Christian Serbians (and a substantial number of Jews) were murdered. Like the Nazis the Catholic Ustasha burned their victims in kilns, alive (the Nazis had victims gassed first). But most of the victims were simply stabbed, slain or shot to death, the number of them being estimated between 300,000 and 600,000, in a rather tiny country. Many of the killers were Franciscan friars. The atrocities were appalling enough to induce bystanders of the Nazi "Sicherheitsdienst der SS", watching, to complain about them to Hitler (who did not listen). The pope knew about these events and did
nothing to prevent them.
Posted by: Tyranny | 15 November 2006
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