WARSAW — The gunman who killed six people in Krakow's Main Market Square on Saturday had visited websites about Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian mass killer, Poland's Justice Minister Waldemar Zurek told Radio Krakow on Tuesday, saying investigators now see "a very strong indication of right-wing extremism" behind the attack. It is the first time a senior minister has pointed to specific evidence from the gunman's own computer and belongings since the shooting.

Source: Reuters, Nov 10 2026

"It is clear that he visited websites concerning Anders Breivik," Zurek said. Breivik, an anti-Muslim neo-Nazi, killed eight people with a car bomb in Oslo in July 2011 and then shot dead 69 people, most of them teenagers, at a Labour Party youth camp on the island of Utoeya. Zurek said a yellow Gadsden flag — a snake above the words "Don't tread on me" — found in the gunman's room had been used by far-right groups in the United States, that symbols found at his workplace "may point toward this line of inquiry", and that a silencer was found in the car he used in the attack.

Prosecutors have named the gunman as Michal Oksinski, a 24-year-old factory worker from Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski in south-eastern Poland. He opened fire from a car in Krakow's historic main square, a popular tourist destination, on Saturday afternoon and was shot and arrested by police within minutes; he died in hospital on Monday before he could be charged. The bodies of his father, mother and sister were found at the family home on Saturday, and officials say they were also likely killed by Oksinski.

What investigators have established — and what they have not

The National Prosecutor's Office says Oksinski held a firearms permit from January 2026 and bought his first gun in March. Four weapons — two AR-15 rifles and two pistols — and several hundred rounds of ammunition were seized from him and his car, and seven more firearms were found at the family flat. He left no letter or message, prosecutors say, and investigators are examining every lead, including whether anyone helped or inspired him — in the prosecutor's words, "including the Russian one". The office's formal position remains that "the motive has not yet been established". Deputy Interior Minister Czeslaw Mroczek said people who knew the gunman describe a loner with an interest in violence and acts of terror, and that the full picture is likely days away.

A motive dispute at the top of Polish politics

The gunman's motive has been a bitter political dispute since Saturday, when Interior Minister Marcin Kierwinski said within hours of the attack that he had been influenced by far-right ideology. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of the nationalist opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party, called that statement a "blatant lie", and members of the government appeared to backtrack on Monday. On Tuesday, PiS lawmaker Michal Wojcik told Reuters he was "outraged" by Zurek's comments: "In my view, representatives of the Polish government are acting dishonestly toward the international community." Kierwinski told public radio on Tuesday that he was not taking back anything he had said, but was waiting to see investigators' findings.

Thousands of people marched in silence through Krakow on Monday evening, joined by Poland's president and prime minister, to honour the victims, and Zurek has said the investigation will continue despite the gunman's death — to establish whether he acted alone — alongside a review of gun permit rules. What happens next: prosecutors are expected to publish further findings as the computer, workplace and weapons evidence is examined, and any formal conclusion on motive — or evidence that someone helped or inspired the gunman — would be a new development on this story.