Key facts
- A Polish man killed six people on Krakow's main square on Saturday, and the suspected gunman died in hospital on Monday.
- Prosecutors identified the suspect as 24-year-old Michal Oksinski from Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski.
- The bodies of his father, mother and sister were found in the family home on Saturday, and officials say they were likely also killed by Oksinski.
- Investigators found a Gadsden flag in Oksinski's room and said the motive was not yet known, the National Prosecutor's Office said.
- Poland's Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime detained five Polish citizens and one Ukrainian for posting threatening or alarming content online after the attack.
Thousands of people took part in a silent march through Krakow on Monday evening along with Poland's president, Karol Nawrocki, and prime minister, Donald Tusk, after a mass shooting in which a Polish man killed six people on the southern city's main square on Saturday, Reuters reported.
The suspected gunman, identified by prosecutors as 24-year-old Michal Oksinski from Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski, died in hospital on Monday after being shot and arrested by police minutes after they said he opened fire from his car in the city's historic main square, a popular tourist destination.
March participants followed part of the route the shooter drove while firing and lit memorial candles at the spots where people were killed. "For Poland, this is always a sign of hope: that while we may hold different views, we are still capable of cooperating, engaging in dialogue, and seeking out what unites us," Deputy Prime Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz told TVN24.
The government said the man may have been inspired by far-right ideology, but officials appeared to backtrack on Monday. "Until the matter is fully clarified and the authorities are in possession of complete information, it is best to refrain from making comments, even if there are some initial indications," government spokesperson Adam Szlapka told TVN24.
National Prosecutor's Office spokesperson Przemyslaw Nowak told a press conference that investigators did not yet know what motivated the killer. He said a Gadsden flag, featuring a snake and the words "Don't tread on me," was found in Oksinski's room, and that it was associated with "various meanings related to freedom or rebellion" but was not widely known as being linked to any form of extremism.