Krakow shooting suspect searched for Anders Behring Breivik, Digi Mart USA News (Krakow, Poland): Poland’s Justice Minister Waldemar Żurek said Tuesday, according to Reuters, that 24-year-old Michal Oksiński searched for several websites about Anders Behring Breivik. He added that there were signs Oksiński was influenced by far-right extremism.
Oksiński is suspected of killing nine people in Krakow over the weekend. Six were killed in a square in the city, and the 24-year-old’s sister and parents were found dead at his home.
Interior Minister Marcin Kierwinski said within hours of the attack that the suspect had been influenced by far-right extremism. Prosecutors later pushed back on that claim, and the justice minister has now returned to the far-right motive.
The gunman wore military clothing and camouflage trousers and carried a long, semi-automatic rifle during the shooting. In total he killed nine people and wounded 15, including two police officers.
Małopolska regional governor Krzysztof Jan Klęczar has identified the six people killed in the square. Several Norwegians were caught in the attack.
Viktoria Årskaug and Sunniva Starheim, both 24, were by the church on the square when panic broke out and had to run for their lives.
The shooting has been described as a terrorist attack.
The suspect’s sister, Magdalena Oksińska, 21, was found dead together with their parents in his home. The family was found in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, about 20 miles north of Krakow, Polish authorities have confirmed, according to Radio Kraków.
