Krakow: From the fatalities (and wounded) to the suspect. What do you know?

Pa link minus six people died and 15 were injured after a 25-year-old, suspected of having links to the far right, started shooting in the centre of Krakow in southern Poland. Then three bodies were found at the suspect's house. What do you know about the shooting?

The attack began shortly after 3 p.m. locals in Krakow's Main Market Square, a popular place among tourists. 

According to the authorities, the suspect, a young man of Polish nationality, will have entered the square with the car and opened fire, having started shooting “at random people from inside the vehicle”.

“A man inside a car that entered the market began to shoot people randomly. The perpetrator was arrested. There are injured people, including police,” the police said.

The suspect was also shot by one of the cops and is hospitalized.

Six dead and 15 injured (including Portuguese)

Six people – four women and two men – died after being shot during the attack. It is known that three of the victims are Polish, one British and the other two have not yet been identified. 

Dozens of people were also injured, including a woman of portuguese nationality.

“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports that a national citizen is confirmed, among the wounded of the attack on Saturday in Krakow. Portuguese is hospitalized”, read in a press release sent to the editors.

The injured Portuguese woman is 74 years old and was shot in the back, according to CNN Portugal, which adds that the woman has already undergone a surgical intervention at the University Hospital of Krakow and is currently hospitalized in intensive care.

According to the Secretary of State of the Communities, Emídio Sousa, on the antenna of SIC Notícias, the woman would be in town to “visit a granddaughter who was from Erasmus”. “The information we have is that you have already been operated and that you will be safe from danger. Our ambassador to Poland is already on his way to get more information,” he said.

Suspect “fascinated by extreme right-wing ideologies”

Suspect in the shooting attack is fascinated by extreme right-wing ideologies and defended very radical positions, according to information disclosed by the Government and the Polish authorities.

 Poland’s Home Secretary Marcin Kierwiński said in a press conference that the 25-year-old suspect “has very radical positions and is fascinated by extreme right-wing ideologies.”.

In turn, regional police spokesman Katarzyna Cisło indicated that the suspect was wearing military-style clothing and a bulletproof vest and wore a military-type rifle.

Found three bodies at the suspect's house

After the attack, they were found three people killed in the suspect's house. According to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, you will be close relatives of the perpetrator of the attack.

The head of the government noted that the authorities found the bodies of two women and a man inside the 25-year-old suspect's house in Ostrowiec .

Following the attack, Donald Tusk announced two days of national mourning, Sunday and Monday, appealing to the country's union before what he classified as difficult times.

“Sunday and Monday will be days of national mourning in Poland. (...) We will certainly all go through these difficult times together during these two days,” the Prime Minister told journalists.

“Solidarity” and “act of unexplained violence”

The Portuguese Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, described the shooting in Krakow, Poland as “an act of inexplicable violence”.

In a publication on social network X, the chief executive wrote that “the attack that killed several people in Krakow and made countless wounded, including a Portuguese citizen, is an act of unexplained violence”.

In turn, Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel expressed his “solidarity” towards the Polish people.

“The MNE Paulo Rangel expresses deep sadness for the victims of the tragic attack in Krakow. To grieving families, the most heartfelt condolences. Portugal expresses its solidarity with the Polish people and hopes for a rapid recovery for all the wounded”, said the guardianship on social network X (Twitter).

The President of the Republic also expressed solidarity with the Polish people. António José Seguro sent a message to President Karol Nawrocki “deeply regretting the fatalities of the attack carried out today in Krakow, from which several were also wounded”.