Reports in state media also accused Gambira of rejoining his religious order without requesting authorisation, Reuters news agency reports.

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He asserted that parish officials never issued a mandatory evacuation order -- a claim disputed by Foti -- and that his clients were reluctant to evacuate their patients without such an order because they knew many would not have survived being taken from the facility.

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Actually, he had opened by plunging straight into his supplementary - without asking the warm-up question on the order paper.

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