Gunman in Polish attack that killed British man ‘is military cadet’
Gunman in Polish attack that killed British man ‘is military cadet’
Emily SmithSun, November 8, 2026 at 8:39 AM UTC
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Police were on the scene after a gunman in military fatigues drove onto Kraków’s Main Market Square and started firing at random on Saturday afternoon - REUTERS/Jakub Porzycki
A gunman who shot six people dead in a suspected far-Right terror attack in Poland is a 25-year-old military cadet, according to reports.
The suspect, identified by police as Micha&lstrok O, is alleged to have shot dead six people, including a British man, and injured 16 others after opening fire in Kraków on Saturday afternoon.
According to the Daily Mail, he has been revealed to be a military cadet at a school 80 miles from where the shooting took place.
Polish police said three bodies had also been found at the flat where the gunman was living. They have been identified as his 53-year-old father, 52-year-old mother and 21-year-old sister.
Marcin Kierwi&nacuteski, the Polish interior minister, said the suspect held “very radical views” and “everything indicates that the shooter was fascinated by far-Right ideology”. The suspect had no previous criminal record.
A large cache of weapons was found in the boot of his vehicle, including a DB carbine, a P99 pistol, a Glock pistol and a Chinese-made bulletproof vest.
Some of the weapons were reported to belong to the alleged gunman and others to his father, under whose name the vehicle was registered.
The gunman was wounded during a shoot-out with police as he tried to escape. He was taken to hospital where he was reported to be in a serious condition and undergoing surgery.
The man’s neighbours told Polish media it was a “shock” to hear of the shooting.
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“[He was] a polite, quiet guy. We can’t say anything bad about him,” residents in his apartment building said.
“Just an ordinary guy. He’d walk around with his hood up, say ‘good morning’. I can’t say a bad word about him,” another said.
Zdzis&lstrokaw Szostak, a neighbour, told Polish tabloid Fakt that the alleged attacker kept an “arsenal” of weapons in his home and would go to the shooting range with his father every Sunday morning. “It didn’t seem dangerous to me,” he said.
The Polish interior ministry said the five foreign nationals injured in the shooting came from Austria, Germany, Portugal, Russia and Britain.
Two policemen were among those injured in the attack, with one in critical condition after undergoing emergency surgery.
Donald Tusk, the Polish prime minister, named them as senior constables Jakub Kulik and Artur Mora&nacuteski, calling them “true heroes”.
Two horse-drawn carriage drivers were also critically injured following the attack, Dorota Litwicka, the president of the Kraków Horse-Drawn Carriages Association, announced.
Mr Tusk said the shooting was “tragic” and flew to Kraków in the wake of the incident.
“The police are investigating the background and all the circumstances of the attack,” he added.
Source: “AOL Breaking”
