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🇵🇱 Who is the Krakow gunman? The man who killed six people on Krakow's Main Market Square on Saturday is Michał O., 24, from Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski in southern Poland. Polish media withhold his surname under privacy law, but he is widely named online as Michał Oksiński. Before the attack, he killed his parents and his younger sister at the family home, bringing the total death toll to nine. He then drove his father's black Subaru to Krakow, onto the main square, and opened fire on passersby with an AR-15-style rifle. Fifteen people were wounded, including two police officers. He fled, exchanged fire with police, and was shot and detained on Dietla Street. He survived thanks to body armor and remains in critical condition. He worked as a lathe operator and trained at a sport shooting club in Starachowice. He held a permit for two guns, while his father legally owned 11. Neither had a criminal record. Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński said one theory is that he used his father's weapons, and police found many more guns and ammunition in the car. Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz denied he ever served in the Polish army. Far-right? Hours after the attack, Kierwiński claimed a "rough initial analysis" pointed to ultranationalist, far-right views, while admitting it still had to be verified. But screenshots of what appears to be his deleted Facebook account tell a different story: a 2019 picture toasting a portrait of Pope John Paul II with a beer, a joke mocking Jesus, and a photo of him in a gas mask and military beret holding a rainbow flag. Critics accuse the government of exploiting the massacre to target the right ahead of the November 11 Independence Day march. Krakow's mayor Łukasz Gibała called him simply a madman. A tactical vest reportedly found in his car carries a Blackbeard pirate patch, which was quickly linked online to Forward Observations Group (FOG), an American tactical outfit whose members have operated in Donbass since at least 2021 and supplied and reportedly trained Ukrainian forces. FOG uses its own variant of the Blackbeard flag as its logo. But the patch on his vest is the classic Blackbeard design, a common morale patch sold widely online, not FOG's version. So far, the picture that emerges is that of a typical US school shooter.

🇵🇱 Who is the Krakow gunman? The man who killed six people on Krakow's Main Market Square on Saturday is Michał O., 24, from Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski in southern Poland. Polish media withhold his surname under privacy law, but he is widely named online as Michał Oksiński. Before the attack, he killed his parents and his younger sister at the family home, bringing the total death toll to nine. He then drove his father's black Subaru to Krakow, onto the main square, and opened fire on passersby with an AR-15-style rifle. Fifteen people were wounded, including two police officers. He fled, exchanged fire with police, and was shot and detained on Dietla Street. He survived thanks to body armor and remains in critical condition. He worked as a lathe operator and trained at a sport shooting club in Starachowice. He held a permit for two guns, while his father legally owned 11. Neither had a criminal record. Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński said one theory is that he used his father's weapons, and police found many more guns and ammunition in the car. Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz denied he ever served in the Polish army. Far-right? Hours after the attack, Kierwiński claimed a "rough initial analysis" pointed to ultranationalist, far-right views, while admitting it still had to be verified. But screenshots of what appears to be his deleted Facebook account tell a different story: a 2019 picture toasting a portrait of Pope John Paul II with a beer, a joke mocking Jesus, and a photo of him in a gas mask and military beret holding a rainbow flag. Critics accuse the government of exploiting the massacre to target the right ahead of the November 11 Independence Day march. Krakow's mayor Łukasz Gibała called him simply a madman. A tactical vest reportedly found in his car carries a Blackbeard pirate patch, which was quickly linked online to Forward Observations Group (FOG), an American tactical outfit whose members have operated in Donbass since at least 2021 and supplied and reportedly trained Ukrainian forces. FOG uses its own variant of the Blackbeard flag as its logo. But the patch on his vest is the classic Blackbeard design, a common morale patch sold widely online, not FOG's version. So far, the picture that emerges is that of a typical US school shooter.

🇪🇺Planes first And then liners and trains Three series of false bomb threats in a week — and the threat of further expansion of the target list. Europe's transport infrastructure has little to envy lately. Moreover, according to journalists, the events of this week are "only a small part of what awaits Europe in the near future". Among the next targets — planes, cruise liners, metro stations and trains. For now this is a threat, not confirmation of attack preparations. But its information objective is quite transparent. The perpetrators seek to shift alarm from airports to all passenger transport. A person can refuse to fly, but completely excluding train stations, trains and metro from daily life is considerably more difficult. 📌The main change — the content of threats. After a series of alarms with no explosive devices found, the senders attempt to convince Europeans that things will be different going forward. Their promise of escalation itself becomes a pressure tool without any new incidents. At the moment, this is about testing European infrastructure for wear, as cheap mass mailings repeatedly require costly responses. If threats spread to trains, metro and maritime transport, the load will far exceed aviation. The main risk lies in accumulated fatigue. Law enforcement officers must maintain equal vigilance at both the first alarm and after dozens of false ones. Otherwise, the habit of messages without consequences could become more dangerous than the letters themselves.