Prosecutors Launcher Terror Investigation as Poland Reels From Fatal Shootings
Prosecutors are treating the attack as terrorism after six people were killed and 16 injured in what officials call Poland's first mass public shooting.
- On Saturday, a 24-year-old gunman killed six people and injured at least 16 during a drive-by shooting in Krakow's main market square, prompting Polish prosecutors to investigate the incident as a 'terrorist offence'.
- Investigators discovered three additional bodies at the suspect's home in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, linking him to both locations, while Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński announced that preliminary findings indicate the suspect held 'very radical far-right views'.
- Police officers Jakub Kulik and Artur Morański were critically injured subduing the attacker, while two surgeons dining nearby rushed to the scene and provided life-saving medical intervention for the wounded officers.
- Krakow Mayor Łukasz Gibała declared an official period of mourning until Wednesday following the tragedy, while a public fundraiser launched by Krzysztof Stanowski raised over 3.5 million zloty to support the injured officers.
- Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz confirmed that injured officer Kulik is a former soldier from the elite 6th Airborne Brigade, while authorities noted the suspect holds a valid firearms licence but lacked tactical combat training.
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The Polish prosecutor announced on Sunday the opening of an investigation for an action with "terrorist character", following the armed attack in Krakow, after which six people died, and 15 others were injured. Separated, the main suspect is suspected that he would have killed three other people, namely his parents and sister, in a separate act committed, according to the clues discovered by the investigators, in the morning of the attack.
The alleged perpetrator of the Saturday attack on Market Square is a 24-year-old Polish citizen who remains hospitalized in critical condition and the authorities are also investigating the death of his parents and a sister, whose bodies were found in the family home.
The Polish Public Prosecutor's Office announced on Sunday that it had opened an investigation for an act of a "terrorist nature" following the killing of six people and some 15 others the previous day in Krakow.
At least six people were killed and 15 wounded when a gunman opened fire on a square in the center of Krakow, Poland's second largest city, on November 7. Three more bodies found in the suspect's house.
(Seoul·Berlin=Yonhap News) Reporter Kwak Min-seo, Correspondent Kim Gye-yeon = Polish authorities have decided to investigate the Krakow shooting that left 22 casualties as a terrorist attack...
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