He didn’t stop at the height of Guards Swiss, forcing the gate of Porta Sant’Anna at high speed in his car. To stop him, the gendarmerie was forced to fire a shot at the car’s tyres. The man still managed to reach the Courtyard of San Damaso where he was eventually arrested. He is about 40 years old, he was in a state of psychophysical alteration. He is now he is in a cell at the barracks of the Gendarmerie. It is a breaking latest news of extraordinary tension that comes from the Vatican City, where this evening, after 8 pm, a car reached the entrance to Sant’Anna at the Vatican. Regardless of the indications provided by the Body of the Swiss Guard pontificalwhich prevented him from entering the state without the relevant authorisations, temporarily left the entrance and, after maneuvering, returned at high speed, forcing the two checkpoints of the Swiss Guard and the State Gendarmerie Corps from the Vatican CITY.
In an attempt to stop the car, the Gendarmerie inspector, guarding the gate, fired a shot pistol towards the front tires of the vehicle. Despite having hit the vehicle on the left front fender, the car continued its run. The alarm code having been quickly broadcast by radio, the gatehouse closed the Gate of the Mint, which allows access to the rear of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican gardens and Piazza Santa Marta. The passenger car has meanwhile reached the Courtyard of San Damasoand the driver got off independently and was blocked and placed under arrest by the Gendarmerie Corps. The man, aged about 40, was immediately subjected to a visit by the doctors of the Directorate of Health and Hygiene of the Vatican City State, who found a serious state of psychophysical alteration. Currently – informs the Vatican press office – the person is in a prison cell in the new premises of the barracks of the Gendarmerie, available to the Judicial Authority. As reported from beraking latest newsthe arrested man had suspended medical therapies for a few days.