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German court orders treatment over pope incident
Staff and agencies
9 minutes ago
BERLIN - A court ordered a German who jumped a security barrier and grabbed hold of Pope Benedict XVI‘s popemobile last year in the Vatican to undergo treatment but stopped short of sending him to a psychiatric hospital.
The 28-year-old, who suffers from a bipolar disorder, was put Monday on four years‘ probation, the Waldshut-Tiengen state court in southwestern Germany said in a statement.
He also was banned "categorically" from consuming alcohol and drugs, and must undergo regular urine tests, the court said. The man was not identified in the statement, in keeping with German court practice.
The German-born pontiff was not harmed in last year‘s incident and appeared not to have even noticed. He did not look back and kept on waving and blessing the crowd.
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