The suspect within the lethal November 7 Krakow capturing appeared up the white supremacist who killed dozens in Norway in 2011, Poland’s justice minister says.
Printed On 10 Nov 2026
A Polish man who opened fire in Krakow metropolis’s primary sq. and killed six folks on Saturday visited web sites about Norwegian white-supremacist killer Anders Behring Breivik, in keeping with Poland’s justice minister.
Waldemar Zurek mentioned on Tuesday that there was “a really robust indication of right-wing extremism” behind the gunman’s actions that shook the nation on November 7.
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Investigators additionally present in his possessions a Gadsden flag – a US Civil Warfare-era flag that includes a rattlesnake on a yellow background that’s usually linked to the US far proper, the minister added.
Prosecutors named the suspect as 24-year-old manufacturing facility employee Michal Oksinski. He died in hospital on Monday after being shot and arrested by police minutes after they mentioned he opened hearth from his automobile in Krakow’s historic primary sq., a well-liked vacationer vacation spot.
Zurek mentioned {that a} silencer, a muzzle system used to cut back the noise of a gun, was discovered within the automobile utilized by the killer.
The our bodies of Oksinski’s father, mom and sister have been discovered of their household dwelling on Saturday. Officers say they have been additionally probably killed by Oksinski.
In July 2011, anti-Muslim neo-Nazi Breivik killed eight folks with a automobile bomb in Oslo after which shot and killed 69 others, most of them youngsters, at a Labour Social gathering youth camp on Utoeya island.
‘Blatant lie’
The suspect’s motives have been the topic of a bitter political dispute since Inside Minister Marcin Kierwinski mentioned on Saturday, simply hours after the incident, that he had been influenced by far-right ideology.
Nationalist opposition Legislation and Justice (PiS) occasion chief Jaroslaw Kaczynski known as Kierwinski’s assertion a “blatant lie” and members of the federal government appeared to backtrack on Monday.
Proper-wing PiS lawmaker Michal Wojcik informed the Reuters information company that he was “outraged” by Justice Minister Zurek’s feedback. “In my opinion, representatives of the Polish authorities are performing dishonestly towards the worldwide neighborhood,” he mentioned.
Kierwinski informed public radio on Tuesday that he was not taking again something he had mentioned however that he was ready to see investigators’ findings.
