Poland calls Krakow shooting rampage ‘terrorist’ attack
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Poland on Nov 8 launched a terrorism probe as mourners brought candles and flowers to Krakow’s Main Market Square in tribute to six people killed by a gunman who the authorities said was “fascinated by far-right ideologies”.
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The 24-year-old Polish man opened fire at random on Nov 7 in the historic centre of the country’s second city, in what Prime Minister Donald Tusk called an act of “terrorism”.
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the shootings, expressing “his deepest condolences to the families of the victims, as well as to the Government and people of Poland”, his spokesman said in a statement on Nov 8.
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A 32-year-old British man and a 51-year-old Austrian woman were among the dead, the Malopolska region’s governor Krzysztof Kleczar told reporters.
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The four others killed were Polish.
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Among the 15 wounded were nationals from Germany, Portugal and Russia, an interior ministry spokeswoman said.
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Three more bodies were found at the suspect’s home in Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski, around 150km north-east of Krakow.
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Police said they were his parents and his sister.
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The gunman was wounded in a shootout with police and is in critical condition in hospital.
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The National Prosecutor’s Office said it had launched a terrorism investigation.
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“I’m absolutely devastated,” Weronika Filar, 27, a Krakow resident, told AFP on Nov 8.
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“It’s one of the safest places on earth genuinely...
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I did not expect anything like this to happen to us,” she said.
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Krzysztof Stepien, a 28-year-old part-time city guide, told AFP: “We’ve heard of various incidents of this sort happening elsewhere in Europe.
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Nothing like this has ever happened here, and I hope it never will again.”
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Two police officers were wounded as they desperately chased the suspect, who was masked and dressed in military garb, including a bullet-proof vest.
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The man left his car at an intersection and started shooting at the officers with a semi-automatic rifle, according to police.
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Social media images showed the two police officers firing at the gunman, with one managing to wound him despite his own injuries.
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One officer was in serious but stable condition, the interior ministry said, as quoted by PAP.
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Police named him as “Jakub Kulik, who without hesitation confronted an armed attacker”.
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On the morning of Nov 8, the usually busy site of the attack was sealed off with red-and-white tape.
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People laid candles and police checked the bags of workers at the cafes and restaurants on the square.
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Most of the souvenir shops remained closed.
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Black flags and Poland’s flag with black ribbons were seen in the city as Warsaw announced two days of national mourning for the victims from Nov 8.
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Pope Leo XIV, currently visiting South America, said he was “deeply saddened by the news of the dead and wounded as a result of the shooting in Krakow”, in a message to Krakow’s archbishop.
The archbishop, Cardinal Grzegorz Rys, holding mass in the city’s cathedral, said: “Death is certain, but the hour of death is in no way so.
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“Who would have thought that a stay in Krakow could end in death at the Market Square?”
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Relatives’ bodies found
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The suspect was named in the media as Michal O.
Police said the three bodies found at the gunman’s home were those of his parents, a 53-year-old man and a 52-year-old woman, and his 21-year-old sister.
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Police officers were still inspecting the flat of the suspect in Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski, an AFP reporter saw.
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“Injuries were found on the bodies, which were preliminarily assessed as gunshot wounds...
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Seven firearms were seized from the flat,” police added.
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Interior Minister Marcin Kierwinski said police had also found weapons in the suspect’s car.
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According to investigators quoted in the Polish media, Michal O. had no previous criminal record.
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Britain’s Prime Minister Andy Burnham said he was “shocked and saddened by the appalling shooting”.
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