Krakow shooting: What we know about the suspect, far right claims and nine killed

Deaths and injured officers

Nine people were reported shot dead in Krakow on Saturday, in one of Poland’s rare mass shootings. The victims included a 32-year-old British man, three Polish women aged 47, 53 and 61, a Polish man around 50, and a 51-year-old woman from Australia.

Two police officers were injured, one critically. The report also says three members of Oksiński’s family were found dead later, and that prosecutors suspect he killed them before going to Krakow’s central square. Its opening says six people died in the rampage, while another passage says nine were shot dead in Krakow; those accounts do not align.

Suspect and investigation

Justice Minister Waldemar Zurek said on Monday that the investigation would continue despite Oksiński’s death. Investigators are seeking to establish whether he acted alone or was inspired by a group.

Far-right claims questioned

Authorities said Oksiński may have held far-right views. The interior minister said the available indications pointed to influence from far-right ideology, and that investigators would examine the issue. He also said many guns were found in the car Oksiński was driving and that a search was continuing.

Nationalist opposition politicians questioned the grounds for the minister’s remarks, and officials appeared to retreat from the earlier assertion. Former schoolmates reportedly said Oksiński was fascinated by Nazis and Aryans, and one said he had drawn pictures of armed attacks at schools.

Weapons and clothing details

The interior minister said Oksiński’s father owned several firearms, and the suspect likely took guns from the family home. Onet reported that Oksiński wore military fatigues embroidered with a Blackbeard the pirate symbol.

An interior ministry spokeswoman said the clothing had several different emblems, which had been partly examined and interpreted. The report says the Blackbeard symbol is used by some US and Ukrainian special forces and is intended to frighten enemy ships into surrendering.