Polish minister says Krakow shooter ‘was fascinated by far-right ideologies’

By AFP Today, 10:32 pm

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Forensic investigators work behind police privacy screens in a cordoned off area after a shooter opened fire in a market square in Krakow, Poland, November 7, 2026, leaving people dead and injured, according to authorities. (AP Photo/Beata Zawrzel)

The gunman who killed six people in a shooting in the historic city center of Krakow, Poland’s second city, was “fascinated by far-right ideologies,” Polish Interior Minister Marcin Kierwinski says.

“Everything suggests that the perpetrator held very, very radical views. A number of weapons were found in the car he was driving,” Kierwinski says, adding that “everything suggests that he was fascinated by far-right ideologies.”