A man burst into Vatican City at full speed with a car through the door of Santa Ana, the Vatican press office reported Thursday. The driver forced his way into the city-state and even reached the courtyard of San Damaso, located inside the apostolic palace. There he stopped, He got out of the vehicle under his own power and was arrested..
The event, which did not leave victims, occurred after 8:00 p.m. (6:00 p.m. GMT) “when a car arrived at the Santa Ana gate of the Vatican, one of the entrances to the Vatican walls,” the statement explained.
After ignoring the instructions given to him by the Swiss Guard soldiers that he could not enter without the relevant authorizations, he temporarily left the entrance and, “after manoeuvring, he re-entered at high speed, forcing the two doors of control of the Swiss Guard and the Gendarmerie Corps (the Vatican police)”.
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In an attempt to stop the car, “the Gendarmerie inspector, who was guarding the door, fired a pistol in the direction of the vehicle’s front tires. Although he caught up with the car on the left front wing, the car kept going.”
As reported efeas the alarm code was quickly broadcast by radio, the Door of the Casa de la Moneda was closed, which allows access to the back of the Basilica of San Pedro, the Vatican gardens and the Plaza de Santa Marta, where it is located the residence of Pope Francis.
Meanwhile, the car arrived at the Patio di San Damaso, and the driver got out under his own power and was stopped and placed under arrest.
The driver, in his 40s, was immediately examined by doctors from the Vatican City State Health and Hygiene Directorate, who found that he was in a serious state of psychophysical disturbance. according to the newspaper The nation, the subject claimed to have had visions of the devilabout which he wanted to inform the Pope.
Currently, he is in a detention cell in the new premises of the Gendarmerie Headquarters, at the disposal of the judicial authority, they added.
