Ingles

Benedicto XVI himself
Join together with the woman
that threw it to the ground

Susanna Maiolo expresses Vicar of Christ her sorrow for to have knocked it down to the ground the past December and offers him an apology; The Pontiff forgives her and manifests his worry for the woman’s health

Vicar of Christ Benedict XVI maintained this Wednesday a conference in the Vatican with Susanna Maiolo, the woman of 25 years that threw him to the ground during the last Midnight Mass, informed today the Holy See.

The encounter, brief, according to you needed the Vatican megaphone, Federico Lombardi, it was produced at the end of the public hearing of on Wednesdays, at an annexed living room to the Aula Pablo I SAW of the Vatican.

Maiolo, Lombardi specified, expressed Vicar of Christ his sorrow for it happened and it required him pardon, and Benedicto XVI manifested his pardon to him and he was interested in his health.

In relation to the summary opened by the magistrature of the State of the Vatican City, the spokesman of the Holy See added that his procedure to his execution will continue .
The Swiss ítalo Susanna Maiolo, of 25 years, already tried during the Midnight Mass of 2008 to approach to Vicar of Christ to greet him. You did not achieve it in that occasion, but she was not beaten.

The past December went back to attempt it and you traveled to Rome to take part in the Midnight Mass. He achieved an invitation and the center of San Pedro’s large church was located close to an one belonging to the two placed fences, that they form a corridor for which Vicar of Christ to arrive to the Bigger Altar is displaced.

When the Pontiff went by close to where you were, the youth jumped over the fence and in spite of the immediate intervention of you escort her XVI and catching his monk’s cassock got through to Benedicto ( stole ), doing it losing balance and falling to the ground.

The Pontiff, helped for the pontifical ceremonieros, you got up, the procession resumed and officiated the mass of Cristo’s Nativity normally.

Worse luck fired the French cardinal Roger Etchegaray, of 87 years, that you accompanied Vicar of Christ, who fell also to the ground and you broke his straight femur, which is why you had to have an operation in the Policlínico Gemelli of Rome

Maiolo was stopped immediately and once a sanitary close center was transferred to the Vatican, where you said to the doctors that you did not want to be harmful to the Holy Father. After you were taken to a psychiatric center of Subiaco’s locality, to some 80 kilometers east of Rome, where you keep on in treatment.

According to the doctors that have treated her, she is a person with psychic problems, with an unstable thought, that he was what led to attempt to her in two occasions to get close to the Pontiff.

The magistrature of the Vatican turned on a summary on the case, still current, although the presiding judge of the Vatican City, Giuseppe della Torre, do not discard that the woman be pronounced not imputable due to her psychic conditions.


Maiolo already passed two years, between 2006 and 2008, in the psychiatric center Wohngruppe Kanzler, of the Swiss locality of Fraunfeld, where you live .