Rome prosecutors have rejected a bid by relatives of a missing teenager to detain Mehmet Ali Agca in a probe into the disappearance in 1983 of Emanuela Orlandi, judicial sources said Monday.
Agca served 19 years in Italian custody after he shot and wounded Pope John Paul II in 1981 and has said he also had information about the missing teen.
But sources said prosecutors do not believe the Turkish man is credible and that his previous claims in the Orlandi case had been heard.
Lawyers for Orlandi's relatives had filed a petition Monday in courts asking that Rome prosecutors aim to detain Mehmet Ali Agca as part of a probe into her disappearance.
After Agca's 19-year Italian prison sentence, he was deported to his native Turkey where he served 10 years.
Earlier this month he said he wants to visit the pope's tomb but Italy had not granted him a visa. He also told ANSA that Orlandi, who was a teenaged Vatican citizen when she disappeared, is still alive and Vatican officials know where she is.
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