The Krakow Killer Wore a Patch of a Horned Skeleton with an Hourglass and a Spear
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A horned skeleton with an hourglass in one hand and a spear piercing a bleeding heart in the other - that's the patch 24-year-old Michał O. was wearing when he shot six people and wounded 15 others in Krakow on Saturday. He had previously killed his parents and sister in his home.
How did people in his hometown experience the death protectors of Krakow? And how did they now govern the action? SPIEGEL reporter Patricia Friedek was travelling in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski.
Rome, November 8, 2026 - between Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski and Krakow, runs exactly 190 km. By car, more or less, it takes two hours and a quarter. Who knows what has passed into the mind of Michal Oksiński, the killer, the familicide, the bomber who in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, a laughing town next to the National Park Góry Świętokrzyskie, has exterminated his family: the investigators have found in the house where the young 24-year-old also lived…
A horned skeleton with an hourglass in one hand and a spear piercing a bleeding heart in the other—this was the badge worn by the 24-year-old who shot and killed six people in Krakow and wounded a dozen others, having previously murdered his family in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski. We explain what this symbol means.
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