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Updated on 18 January 2010

The man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981 has been released from prison after completing his sentence for crimes committed in Turkey.

Mehmet Ali Agca, who spent more than 29 years in prison, will be taken to a military facility and then to a hospital to renew a 2006 military hospital report which said he is not fit for obligatory military service because of "severe anti-social personality disorder," said Gokay Gultekin, his lawyer.

There have been long-standing questions about Agca's mental health based on his frequent outbursts and claims that he was the Messiah.

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