Vatican City, Jun 6, 2007 / 07:56 am
The spokesman for the pope, Fr. Fredrico Lombardi, dismissed any intention of an attack on the Holy Father by a young German man at today's Wednesday audience.
At 10:35 am local time today, as the Pope was making his way through the crowds in his Popemobile, a 27 year-old German man attempted to board the vehicle. The man, who was wearing a baseball cap, jumped over a wooden barricade as the Pope passed by in his open-topped jeep and attempted to get into the car.
The man was stopped by the Pope’s bodyguards and taken away for questioning.
Upon determining that there were no other threats to the Holy Father, the 27-year-old was committed to a psychiatric hospital.