At least six people have been killed and 15 more wounded when a gunman opened fire from his car in the southern Polish city of Kraków, officials said on Saturday, adding that three more people were found dead at his home.
Police started getting reports of a shooting at around 3 p.m. local time (9 a.m. ET), when the suspect drove into the city’s main market square and started firing randomly, killing four women and two men, Kraków police said.
The alleged attacker was wearing military-style clothing and used military weapons, Police Deputy Inspector Katarzyna Cisło told Polish news outlet TVN24.
He was shot and injured by police and has been transported to the hospital, police said.
This is really sad. And it happened in Kraków, of all cities. I can’t wait for my right-wing colleagues and family members be like: “But left-wing terrorists also killed people… in the 70s! So we need to be afraid of them! This guy was just an exception, probably mentally ill…”
Don’t know about Poland, but in Germany, criminal acts by the right wing outnumber those by the left wing by more than 3:1. Also, left wing terrorists target… right wingers, and the owning class and its henchmen. Right wing terrorists tend to target immigrants, but also completely white-bread average people, like in this case.
While what you say is generally true, in Germany there was genuine left-wing terrorism and there was a dictatorship that colored itself red until recently in former Eastern Germany. I don’t think it affects nearly everyone who is / pretends to be afraid of leftwing parties, but there definitely some generational trauma playing into this.
Given even parts of the CDU have cooperated with the left I think this bias is slowly fading, but still present. As for the police, I’m kinda torn on the matter. They are getting political pressure and probably have their own biases, but it’s not like they don’t take care of far-right nutjobs or that let it slide when you have illegal weapons.
In Poland the right doesn’t scare people with left-wing terrorists but with immigrants. It’s basically “you need to be afraid of muslin terrorists”. In this case the right will claim they had nothing to do with this guy and blame the government for not preventing it.