The key facts

  • Five people taken into custody for glorifying the gunman's actions online
  • Death toll in the Kraków shooting rises to six, at least 15 injured
  • Among the victims are five foreign nationals, including a Russian citizen; the gunman died in hospital

Detentions after the shooting in Kraków

Polish police have taken into custody five people who expressed support for and glorified the actions of the gunman who attacked people in central Kraków online. This was reported by Gazeta.Ru citing the newspaper Wiadomości. Interior and Administration Ministry spokesperson Karolina Gałecka said the detainees had 'possibly, in a certain sense, imitated the actions of Michał Oksiński' and called them a potential threat.

Scale of the incident and the gunman's condition

The shooting in central Kraków took place on 7 November. According to the latest reports, six people were killed and at least 15 were injured. Among the wounded are two police officers and five foreign nationals: from Germany, Austria, Portugal, the United Kingdom and Russia. On 9 November, the police of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship reported that the gunman had died in hospital. Earlier, according to Polish and Russian media, a threat of a new terrorist attack had already emerged in Kraków.

Monitoring extends to the darknet as well

Gałecka clarified that law enforcement actions are not limited to publicly accessible social media and forums: the police have their own sources and are checking information appearing on the darknet. Thus, the detentions concern not participants in the attack itself, but people who expressed support for it online — this aspect was disclosed by the Polish side through Wiadomości, while information about the victims and the wounded gunman came from separate reports by the Lesser Poland Voivodeship police.