Symbolic imagePoland opens terrorism probe after Krakow market square shooting
A 24-year-old Polish man shot six people dead on Krakow's main square on Saturday. Prime minister Donald Tusk called it an act of terrorism.
The suspect, a 24-year-old Polish citizen, drove onto the main square at about 15:00 on Saturday, 7 November, and fired at passersby from his car. FAZ reports he apparently killed his parents and sister at home first. Six people died and between about a dozen and 17 were injured; so far three Polish women and a British citizen have been identified among the dead. Police wounded the suspect, who underwent emergency surgery, and say he held a licence for the AR-15 rifle he used. Koha reports that prosecutors classified the attack as terrorist. The Guardian says it is believed to be inspired by far-right ideologies, while FAZ notes that no reliable information on his motives exists yet.
Two officers hailed as heroes
Officers Jakub Kulik and Artur Morański were wounded in the exchange of fire with the gunman, and Kulik was critically injured. Polskie Radio 24 reported that both were brought out of medically induced comas on Sunday. Tusk said they had probably saved many lives.
Politics sharpen before 11 November
FAZ reports that the right-wing camp around PiS and President Karol Nawrocki had attacked Tusk's government for days, and that conspiracy theories about the attack spread from that milieu over the weekend, though leading right-wing politicians did not escalate. Tens of thousands of nationalists are expected at Warsaw's independence march on Wednesday, 11 November.