ROME – In an interview set to air Sunday evening, Pope Francis said he was “shocked” by the infiltration of the US Capitol by a pro-Trump mob earlier this week, saying the temptation to violence is something even the most mature democracies risk.

Asked about the mob scenes by Italian journalist Fabio Ragona for Italian television channel Tg5, Francis said, “I was shocked because this is a people so disciplined in democracy.”

Though he did not mention anything or anyone specific, he said in a trailer for the interview, “Even in the most mature realities there’s something that’s not right, something that causes people to take to the streets against the community, against democracy, against the common good,” and voiced gratitude that this “broke out” in the case of the US Capitol breach, “because in this way you can find a remedy.”

This type of behavior “must be condemned,” the pope said, noting that “violence is always like this, no?”

“It happens in history,” he said. “We must understand well in order not to repeat it and to learn from history; learn that para-regular groups that are not well inserted into society sooner or later will carry out these acts of violence.”

Francis’s comments come just days after pro-Trump protestors contesting the results of the US presidential election stormed the nation’s Capitol Building Jan. 6, an incident that left five people dead, including a police officer.

Protesters broke inside and infiltrated the Senate chamber as well as numerous offices, including that of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, forcing the evacuation of US Vice President Mike Pence and other lawmakers, as well as the suspension of the certification process of November’s presidential election results.

The breach was condemned by international leaders and church officials throughout the world.

No one in the Vatican has made a formal statement about the incident, making Pope Francis’s interview with Tg5 the first public comments about it from a Vatican official.

In the interview, Francis is also said to address the coronavirus pandemic and the COVID-19 vaccines, abortion, politics, and how his own life has changed as a result of the coronavirus.

After the interview the channel will show a film called, “Call me Francis – the Pope of the People,” which recounts the Francis’s childhood and his time in Argentina, as well as his election to the papacy.