Second armed threat in Vatican Square

Less than a month after a man on New York’s “most wanted” list was arrested in St. Peter’s Square with three knives ahead of a papal audience, a parish priest from the Czech Republic and another man were detained Sunday before the pontiff’s Angelus address after being found to have an air gun, two knives, a box cutter, and a screwdriver in the priest’s bag. Pope Francis had yet to appear in the Square.

 

 

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