Thousands of mourners filled Kraków’s historic Main Market Square Monday night for a silent march honoring the six victims of Saturday’s mass shooting, an attack that has shaken Poland and briefly bridged its bitter political divides.
Participants carried candles and listened as a bugler played “Sound of Silence” at 8:30 p.m. local time. The vigil came hours after the suspected gunman, 24-year-old Michał Oksiński, died from injuries sustained during a shootout with police.
Rivals Side by Side
In a striking moment of unity, President Karol Nawrocki and Prime Minister Donald Tusk—whose public feud over constitutional issues had reached a boiling point just days earlier—walked side by side with Kraków Mayor Łukasz Gibała at the march’s forefront.
“For Poland, this is always a sign of hope,” Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz told TVN24. “That while we may hold different views, we are still capable of cooperating… showing solidarity during difficult times.”
Victims Remembered
Polish media identified the deceased as three Polish women (ages 47, 53, and 61), a 55-year-old Polish man, a 32-year-old British national, and a 51-year-old Austrian woman. Over a dozen others were injured in the attack, where a masked Oksiński allegedly fired from a moving vehicle.
Authorities later discovered Oksiński’s parents and sister—identified as Kraków Academy of Fine Arts student Magdalena Oksińska—murdered in their Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski home. One teacher remembered Magdalena as “very talented, sensitive, and hard-working.”
Motives Unclear
The government faced backlash after Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński initially claimed without evidence that the shooter was “fascinated with far-right” ideologies. Kierwiński later walked back the statement as a baseless “initial hypothesis.”
As candles flickered across the square, the rare political truce offered a fragile moment of cohesion for a nation grappling with violence and unanswered questions.
Source: www.breitbart.com — https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2026/11/10/watch-thousands-mourn-krakow-mass-shooting-victims-in-silent-march/