The new film by Pasikowski “COMPLAY Na Pope” entered the screens of cinemas on September 26, 2025. reveals the backstage of the plot, which aimed to be an assassination at John Paul II. Shots towards the Pope were fired on May 13, 1981, and more than two years after the assassination at St. Peter in the Vatican John Paul II visited Turk Ali Agca in a prison cell in Rome. The meeting lasted 25 minutes. Later, the world was circulated by the famous photos of the Pope leaning towards Agca and the arm of his arm.
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It is not known what they talked about, but the Pope was to forgive Turk. He had already informed about forgiveness before. “I pray for my brother, who dealt me, and I honestly forgive him,” said John Paul II during the first public speech three weeks after the assassination.
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John Paul II met with a bomber in prison
When on May 13, 1981, Mehmet Ali Agca fired accurate, though not deadly, shots to the Pope in St. Piotr in Rome, he was 23 years old and behind him other murder, prison and escape from him. Until now, it is not known why he wanted to kill the Pope, and he later gave various statements and changed his testimony many times.
Two months after the assassination of Agca, he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Two and a half years later, the Pope visited him in prison. It is not known what they talked about, but – as Polityka wrote in 2010 – John Paul II was to confide in Fr. Andrzej Bardecki, the editor of “Tygodnik Powszechny”, that Agca returned obsessively in a conversation to the topic of Fatima. It was the anniversary of Fatima's first revelation that was to be an inspiration to shoot.
Meeting of the Pope with a bomber in prisonEPA / PAP
A few years after the meeting with the bomber, John Paul II accepted his mother, a Muslim in the Vatican. After this conversation, he was to appeal to the release of Ali Agca. In 2000, the bomber was released from the rest of the punishment in Italy, but he was sent to a Turkish prison. Ultimately, Agca was released in 2010.
Two months before the death of the Pope, the would -be killer sent him a letter in which he wished him health and warned against the approaching end of the world allegedly. He also wanted to participate in the funeral of John Paul II, but he was not given a pass.
