Polish President and Prime Minister Honor Victims of Attack

Dezens of thousands of Poles took part in a silent march in Krakow tonight, in the presence of heads of state and government, in honor of the victims of the massacre perpetrated on Saturday.

The march left at 20:00 locals (19:00 in Lisbon) from the market square, a place of tragedy, where a great crowd met, reported the AFP agency.

Despite his deep political antagonisms, the Nationalist President, Karol Nawrocki, and the centrist Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, headed the march along with the mayor of Krakow, Lukasz Gibala.

The leaders gathered on the corner of the market square, covered in flowers, where the killer shot passers-by in his car, killing six people and injuring another 15, including a Portuguese woman, who was hospitalized.

Hit several times by police bullets, the 24-year-old attacker died early today in the hospital after having undergone three operations.

It is suspected that he killed a total of nine people, including his own parents and sister, who were shot to death and found at home, two hours' drive from Krakow.

Dressed in military uniform, mask and helmet, armed with a semiautomatic rifle, Michal Oksinski opened fire from his vehicle against passers-by near the market square of the old town, popular among tourists, on Saturday, at 15:00 locals.

Six people, including a 32-year-old British and a 51-year-old Austrian woman, died.

Fifteen others, including two police officers and five foreigners (of Portuguese, British, Russian, German and Austrian nationalities), were injured. His health was “stable” today, according to regional authorities.

According to the Polish Minister of Interior, the murderer was “fascinated by extreme right-wing ideologies.”.

But judicial authorities believe that long investigations will be needed to understand their motives and claim that they cannot “categorically” corroborate the minister’s words.

“ We have no proof to state categorically and responsibly that he was inspired by one ideology or another,” Przemyslaw Nowak, spokesman for the national prosecutor’s office, said at a press conference today.

“It’s too early to tell what the reasons are... We did not find any obvious symbols that are usually associated with a certain political current, either far-right or far-left”, he added.

An investigation was opened for an act “of a terrorist nature” and the procedure for the murder of their families was integrated.

The death of the murderer – who has never been heard – naturally puts an end to the lawsuit against him, but the investigation continues, said the prosecutor's office today.

According to investigators quoted in the Polish press, the attacker had no criminal record. He was a member, along with his father, of a gun club.

In total, seven guns were seized in your home. The killer took four guns, including two semiautomatic rifles, and about 500 ammo to Krakow, according to the prosecutor's office.

Oksinski's paternal grandmother told the media that he had obtained a license to carry weapons this year.

The Ministry of the Interior has announced that it is launching a review of the conditions for granting firearms licences.

Poland is experiencing a marked increase in the number of arms licenses. In 2025 more than 50,000 new permits were granted, raising the number to 411,000, according to the police.

“The author’s clothes had many different emblems,” Karolina Galecka, spokesperson for the Ministry of Interior, told the press today.

A country in Eastern Europe with 38 million inhabitants, which had not been spared the attacks until then, had not witnessed such a massacre of civilians since the end of the Communist regime (1944-1989).