Metro10 April 2012
The hitman who shot Pope John Paul II has apparently struck a £4.5million deal to play himself in a film.
Would-be assassin Mehmet Ali Agca, 48, has been paid a £280,000 advance by a Hollywood studio, an Italian magazine claimed.
Agca, who shot the pontiff twice in Rome in 1981, is reportedly in hiding after being freed from an Istanbul jail, where he served time for killing a newspaper boss.
While in prison in 2000, Agca offered to capture fugitive Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden 'dead or alive' and to kill Syrian president Hafez Assad, Turkish media claimed yesterday.
