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Man charges at pope
12/09/2006 18:16 - (SA)
Regensburg - A young man charged towards Pope Benedict XVI at the end of an open-air mass in this southern German city on Tuesday, but the pontiff was not in danger, officials said.
The man ran out of the crowd of 250 000 gathered at the Islinger Feld park and ran towards the steps leading to the altar where the pope was sitting. He was stopped by plain-clothes German police officers, Bavarian interior minister Günther Beckstein said.
The mayor of Regensburg, Hans Schaidinger, told AFP he had seen the incident.
"It was not a serious disruption to security. It was apparently a young fan, who in his excitement wanted to reach the altar," he said.
The man "had run with all his strength" towards the steps.
"It was out of order," Schaidinger added.
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