World leaders have paid tribute as Poland declared two national days of mourning after a shooter motivated by far-right ideologies killed six people in Kraków on Saturday, in what the country’s defense minister characterized as a “terror attack.”
\n\nThe gunman, described by officials as having “ultranationalistic” beliefs, is reported to have opened fire in Kraków’s main market square. Four women and two men were killed in the midday attack, the country’s deadliest shooting in decades, while a policeman who confronted the gunman is in critical condition.
\n\nThe suspect is being investigated on suspicion of murder in connection with the six deaths, Polish Justice Minister Waldemar Żurek said on X Sunday, adding that he “acted with the aim of seriously intimidating a large number of people, making this a terrorist offence.”
\n\nThe same suspect is facing a separate murder charge over killings in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyskie, Żurek said, a town some 93 miles northeast of Kraków where three of the man’s relatives were found dead in his home.
\n\n“Establishing all the circumstances of these tragic events, determining the full sequence of the perpetrator’s actions and securing evidence are currently the priorities of the investigation,” which is being led by terror offence specialists…
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