Unhinged man forces car into Vatican, before surrendering

An unbalanced forced, Thursday, May 18, in the evening, the entry of the Vatican with his car before being arrested, declared the press service of the Holy See.

Shortly after 8 p.m. (French time), a motorist arrived at one of the entrances to the Vatican, and after being turned away by the Swiss guards, for lack of access authorization, returned “at high speed, forcing the two checkpoints”according to the same source.

A Vatican Gendarmerie inspector fired a shot at the car’s tires but failed to stop him. An alert having been launched, other accesses to the Vatican were closed. The car finally stopped inside Vatican City “and the man came down on his own and was overpowered by the gendarmerie”according to the same source.

“He was immediately subjected to a medical examination (…) which found a serious psychophysical alteration” of the driver. The latter, whose identity has not been specified, is imprisoned in a Vatican cell and is at the disposal of the judicial authorities, the statement concludes.