KRAKOW: A Polish man accused of carrying out a deadly shooting spree in Krakow died in hospital on Monday, two days after he was critically wounded in a gunbattle with police, authorities said. But after he had originally been linked to the far right, prosecutors said that his reasons for killing nine people, including three family members, remained unclear. The 24-year-old, dressed in military garb, allegedly opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle in a Krakow square killing six people.
Authorities had previously said the man had been "fascinated by far-right ideologies" and Prime Minister Donald Tusk called the shooting — the deadliest in the country since the fall of communism in 1989 — an act of "terrorism". But at a press conference on Monday, prosecutors said that there was no evidence tying the suspect to any particular political bent.
"We do not have findings that we could, in a responsible way, categorically state that he was inspired by any particular ideology," national prosecutor's office spokesman Przemyslaw Nowak said. "It is far too early to comment on the motives ... We have not found any obvious symbols that are generally associated with a particular political movement, whether far right or far left," he added. — AFP
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