Kraków shooter was interested in Anders Breivik, Polish minister says
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on L’essentiel
Polish Justice Minister Waldemar Zurek says the perpetrator of the Kraków shooting looked at websites devoted to Norwegian neo-Nazi Anders Breivik. According to him, investigators also found a Gadsden flag, a symbol sometimes associated with the American far right, in the attacker’s possession.
Polish Justice Minister Waldemar Zurek said on Tuesday that the perpetrator of the Kraków shooting, Michal Oksinski, was interested in Norwegian neo-Nazi Anders Behring Breivik. According to him, investigators found records on the attacker’s computer of visits to websites devoted to Breivik.
On 22 July 2011, Breivik detonated a bomb in Oslo, killing eight people, then shot dead 69 others, most of them teenagers, on the island of Utøya. Investigators also found a Gadsden flag in the attacker’s possession, a historic American flag depicting a rattlesnake with the motto "Don’t Tread on Me", a symbol sometimes associated with certain American far-right movements. The minister considers these elements "very strong indications" of far-right radicalisation, without ruling out psychiatric problems.
The death toll stands at nine, including the attacker’s parents and sister, who were found with gunshot wounds at their home, two hours' drive from Kraków. In this former Polish capital, the man, in military uniform and armed with a semi-automatic rifle, opened fire from his vehicle on the main market square. Six people, including a British and an Austrian national, died in Kraków and fifteen were injured, including five foreigners.
