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Former papal bodyguard Camillo Cibin dies

Posted : Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:16:47 GMT
By : dpa
Category : Religion (General)
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Rome - Camillo Cibin, the former chief bodyguard of the late Pope John Paul II, died in Rome on Sunday at the age of 83, Italy's ANSA news agency reported. Cibin had spent nearly six decades in the Vatican's security services before he retired in June 2006.

He was with John Paul II during two failed assassination attempts in the early 1980s.

Cibin overpowered Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca after he shot and wounded the pontiff in St Peter's Square in May 1981. A year later, Cibin intervened again when a priest armed with a knife attack the John Paul at a shrine in Fatima, Portugal.

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