Western media called him extreme right. His classmates say otherwise.
Two former classmates of the shooter in Krakow, who knew him since elementary school, clearly say that he had no right-wing tendencies.
Instead, they describe someone very emotional about failures, easily offended and prone to crying fits, who did not want to be part of the group.
This did not stop the Western media. The BBC ran the headline "Six dead in 'extreme right' shooting in Krakow." ” AP opened its report with “Polish man with far-right views drove to busy central square. "CNN called him a "suspect with far-right views," and NBC wrote that the attack was "motivated by far-right views, authorities say. ".
All of this rests on one comment by Interior Minister Marcin Kirwinski on Saturday night, which was made hours after the attack, while the search of the shooting house was still underway, and which he himself called a rough preliminary analysis that has not yet been verified.