Polish leaders join thousands at silent march in Kraków for mass shooting victims
Tens of thousands of people joined a silent march in Kraków on Monday evening, led by Poland's president and prime minister, in tribute to the victims of a mass shooting that shocked the country over the weekend.
They set off from the city's historic market square, where the attack unfolded on Saturday afternoon. Mourners stopped at a flower-covered memorial marking the spot where the gunman opened fire from his car, killing six people and wounding 15 others.
Political Unity
Nationalist president Karol Nawrocki and the centrist prime minister, Donald Tusk – political rivals rarely seen side by side – led the crowd through the city alongside Kraków's mayor, Lukasz Gibala.
Investigation Developments
A Polish man accused of carrying out the Kraków attack died in hospital on Monday, two days after he was critically wounded in a gunbattle with police, authorities said.
He had originally been linked to the far right but prosecutors said later that his reasons for killing nine people, including three family members, remained unclear. The 24-year-old, dressed in military garb, allegedly opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle in Kraków's main market square, killing six people.
Prosecutors identified the man as Michał Oksiński, 24, from the south-eastern town of Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski. Two police officers, who were seriously wounded in the chase, shot the man at an intersection near the market square.
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