Kraków shooting prosecutors autopsies and national mourning, Digi Mart USA News (Kraków, Poland): Prosecutors will begin autopsies on six people killed in an attack in Kraków, as well as three people from the family of the 24-year-old attacker who were found in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski. A condolence book will also be placed at the Kraków city hall.
The autopsies are scheduled to begin Monday morning. The attacker, identified in the report as Michał O., died overnight in hospital.
A nationwide day of national mourning is in effect and will last until Monday. Kraków city authorities have decided that mourning in the city will continue through November 11 inclusive.
Two police officers, Artur Morański and Jakub Kulik, who subdued the attacker, have been awakened from comas. President Karol Nawrocki and Kraków Mayor Łukasz Gibała plan to honor them, and Gibała has requested that both officers be granted the title of Honorary Citizen of Kraków, the city’s highest honor.
On Monday at 8 p.m., a solidarity rally will take place at the corner of the Main Market Square and Sławkowska Street to honor the victims and express solidarity with the injured and their relatives.
From Monday to Wednesday, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., a condolence book will be displayed in the lobby of Kraków city hall on Plac Wszystkich Świętych.
An electronic condolence book was also made available on the city’s website.
On Saturday, shortly after 3 p.m., the masked 24-year-old drove a car onto the Main Market Square and opened fire on passersby. Six people were killed and 16 were wounded, including the intervening police officers and the attacker.
The Main Market Square was closed to the public for investigative work and reopened Sunday evening, when people gathered to lay flowers and light candles at the sites where people were killed or injured.
