On Saturday afternoon, 24-year-old Michal Oksinski drove into Kraków’s Main Market Square and started shooting. Before he was stopped in a heroic action by local police, he had killed at least six people and wounded many more. His victims included Poles, a British national and an Austrian. His parents and sister were found shot dead in the family home. Oksinski died in hospital, succumbing to the wounds he received in a gunfight with police.
Kraków police source has said that the gunman behind Saturday’s mass shooting, which left nine people dead and more than a dozen injured, held far-left rather than far-right views, directly challenging Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński’s claim, which has already spread through Western mainstream media and been amplified by liberal-progressive and left-wing MEPs, including Renew Europe leader Valérie Hayer.
A gunman suspected of killing six people in Krakow has died in hospital, Polish police say.
The 24-year-old, who ministers said was apparently inspired by “far-right ideologies”, was injured after opening fire in central Krakow, the second largest city in Poland, on Saturday.
Armed officers raced to the scene and engaged in a gunfight with the suspect, who was shot within three minutes of the attack beginning, preventing a further massacre, officials said.
Update: Mass shooting in Krakow, Poland market leaves at least 6 dead, 15 injured
A man drove into an open market in the Polish city of Krakow and opened fire from his car, killing at least six people and injuring at least 15 others, authorities said. The shooter was shot by police and taken into custody.
The shooting happened in the Main Market Square in Krakow around 3 p.m. local time on Saturday. Krakow police said the alleged shooter began firing at random people from his car. Police said the victims were four women and two men.
h/t PA Cat
Mass shooting Krakow
Five people have been killed after a shooting in Krakow’s Main Market Square and around a dozen people are injured, including police officers, Małopolska Police say.
🚨🇵🇱 A Polish police officer confronted the HEAVILY armed gunman in Kraków and helped bring a DEADLY shooting rampage to an end.
The attacker was apparently wearing Polish Army camouflage, a helmet and BODY ARMOR.
His weapon is believed to have been a Haenel CR carbine or a similar AR-15-style rifle fitted with an optical sight.
FIVE people were killed and more than a dozen wounded after the gunman opened fire in the city’s historic Main Market Square.
Police shot and wounded the suspect, with officers also injured during the confrontation.
The officer who faced him was risking his life against someone apparently equipped for a serious firefight.
How many more people could have been killed without that intervention?
Writer: Oliver
https://t.co/x1GiPzatre— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) November 7, 2026
In Poland, Nov. 1 marks All Saints’ Day, a national holiday in which Poles customarily visit the graves of deceased loved ones with candles and flowers. Many of the deceased visited this year would have lived through the 1981 imposition of martial law, the communist regime’s desperate attempt to restrict the power of the Solidarity movement in the face of a Soviet military threat.
The governing question pertaining to the attempted coup d’état in Poland Friday night was neatly expressed in the title of John Fonte’s brilliant 2011 book: Sovereignty or Submission? Fonte was writing about America. Would Americans, he wanted to know, be ruled by themselves? Or would they be ruled by others? In other words, who governs? The people or the unelected bureaucrats? It is one of the central political questions of our times, as applicable to Europe, Australia, Canada, and South America as it is to the United States.
🚨 JUST IN: Polish MEP Dominik Tarczyński STARES into the camera to drop this message for any American considering voting Democrat in 2026
"Socialism is DEATH, slavery and lack of any freedoms. PLEASE don’t do it — don’t go through 70 years of occupation like Poland did."
"You know what socialism is? Everyone is equal…Equally HUNGRY. And that’s what we went through. Please, don’t do it. Do not vote socialist for your next generations for your children and grandchildren!"
@D_Tarczynski 💯💯
Poles LIVED THIS: ration cards, empty shelves, lack of food and martial law by the commies
Now Democrats are running open socialists like Mamdani and ABDUL EL SAYED
Listen to the people who actually survived it! 🇺🇸🇵🇱
Everyone who fled communism does NOT want to go back. Americans must vote Republican.
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 31, 2026
Riot police were locked in a tense standoff with protesters outside Poland’s constitutional court on Friday night after its top judge was suspended in the latest escalation in a decade-long dispute over the court’s legal status.
The clashes followed a controversial decision by a group of government-appointed judges to suspend the court’s contested president, Bogdan Święczkowski, and his deputy, Bartłomiej Sochański, amid disagreements over the bench’s legitimacy.
The move prompted a furious reaction from the rightwing opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party, with its leader, Jarosław Kaczyński, condemning what he claimed was an “assault” on the court.
Polish MEP Dominik Tarczyński is explaining what is happening right now at Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal, calling it nothing less than a COUP D’ÉTAT!
“In Poland, we have a liberal-left government led by Donald Tusk, who is the Prime Minister. What is happening right now with the Constitutional Tribunal is that they want to take it over and fill it with their own people.
Why? Because they want to get rid of the Polish currency, bring us into the eurozone, and eliminate our secure borders. They are being pushed by the Germans, who want to spread the burden of illegal migration and send migrants to Poland.
First of all, the Polish złoty is our constitutionally protected currency. They have to change the Constitution to replace it, and without the Constitutional Tribunal, they cannot do that.
So, number one, they want to get rid of our currency and force us to adopt the euro and join the eurozone. Then they want to take our gold reserves, the largest in the European Union, to Frankfurt, to the European Central Bank, which is a German-based institution.
They also want to open our borders. And they want to make sure that when they lose the next elections, which are coming next year, the Constitutional Tribunal will be unable to do anything to stop their actions or reverse what they have done.
There are many more reasons, but I want you to understand one thing: they are under German influence. They are globalists, and we are fighting not just for Poland, but for Europe.
Be like Poland. Be strong. Our nation is strong, and we are going to win this fight!”
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) October 31, 2026
Riot police have been deployed at Poland’s Constitutional Court amid an escalating stand-off between the government and the court’s top judges.
The row pits the government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk against his predecessors from the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS).
The police intervention came after Justice Minister Waldemar Żurek said he had requested stripping the court’s President Bogdan Święczkowski and Vice-President Bartłomiej Sochański of their immunity from prosecution to bring criminal charges against them.
The EU’s @donaldtusk lets the cat out of the bag as to what today’s coup d’etat in Poland 🇵🇱 is all about. He was speaking yesterday.
"I will not allow the right wing to take us out of the European Union. That’s what the game is about today."
— David Atherton (@daveatherton) October 30, 2026
🇵🇱 BREAKING FROM POLAND! Right now, Poles are singing “Rota,” a historic Polish patriotic anthem, outside the Constitutional Tribunal. Their voices rise into the cold night: “So help us God!”!
The message to Tusk is unmistakable: Never underestimate the Polish spirit of freedom. It runs deep in our nation’s DNA.— Marcin Czapliński (@czaplinskiii) October 30, 2026
h/t Hermes
Nearly 5,000 Germans emigrated to Poland in 2025, outpacing the numbers who left for Britain, Italy or the Netherlands, according to new government data.
BOROVE, Ukraine—This summer, a small crowd gathered around six freshly exhumed human skeletons protruding from the ground on the edge of a sunflower field in Ukraine.
They didn’t belong to victims of Russia’s war on Ukraine, but to Poles massacred by Ukrainian ultranationalists who briefly allied with Nazi forces in World War II.
The discovery of burial sites like the one here has long eaten away at relations between the neighbors. Kyiv has lionized the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, known in Ukraine as the UPA, as freedom fighters who fought both the Soviets and Germans, but they are remembered in Poland for the slaughter of tens of thousands of Poles near the two countries’ modern-day borders.
A statue of the Virgin Mary believed to be Europe’s tallest has been formally unveiled in a small Polish village.
The 55.6-metre (182ft) concrete figure is roughly two double-decker buses longer than Rio de Janeiro’s smaller – if more prominently placed – Christ the Redeemer monument, though it still pales in comparison to a 98m Virgin Mary erected in the Philippines.
The ecclesiastical sculpture in rural Konotopie was consecrated by a local bishop in a ceremony on Saturday, a day chosen to coincide with the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Not sure any other Euro state would have allowed this out of fear they might anger their Muslim settlers.
Poland has kept the Muslims out for the most part.
Poland, with an imminent high-priced military ramp-up, is betting that the cost of peace is cheaper than the price of war with Russia.
In a watershed defence spend, coming from a European Union loan, Warsaw is pouring nearly 44 billion euros ($71 billion) into stepping up its military infrastructure. Why now? That’s obvious for anyone following Moscow’s unyielding provocations.
Russia is planning an armed “provocation” on Polish soil to test Nato’s resolve, the United States has warned.
Polish critical infrastructure could be targeted by missiles and drones or Russian soldiers could cross the border into Nato territory.
Washington has issued several warnings to Warsaw about the plot, sources close to Karol Nawrocki, the Polish president, told Onet, the Polish news outlet, which, along with The Telegraph, is owned by Axel Springer and is part of its Global Reporters Network.
🇵🇱🇩🇪German police were filmed beating Poles who carried a large cross to the Place of Remembrance for Poland 1939-1945, a monument to the Polish victims of WWII in Berlin.
The incident is threatening to turn into a diplomatic fiasco. pic.twitter.com/yM7dBYEH6e
— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) June 16, 2026
Russia is already waging war on Poland, and Nato must respond more forcefully to its next attack, a senior Polish general has said.
Poland shot down Russian drones deep inside its airspace last autumn, while Moscow-linked hackers have attacked government infrastructure and ministries of thousands of times — including a cyber-assault that sought to cripple the power grid in midwinter.
