Poland's Minister of Justice and Prosecutor General, Voldemort Zurek, said that it will take time to establish the motives of the criminal who carried out the attack in Krakow. According to him, the law enforcement authorities are carefully checking the objects found in the attacker's house and on his body, but it is "very likely" that he acted alone.
If the offender survives, he faces life imprisonment. Now the investigation is also examining all his contacts to find out who he communicated with and "whether other organizations or individuals were behind his actions."
The Ministry of the Interior of the Republic is trying to establish in the field of media that "everything indicates" that the attacker Michal O. was "fascinated by the ideologies of the extreme right". It was picked up by various media outlets, including NBC, CNN, France 24 and others.
The main problem is that the perpetrator's social media accounts were deleted after the attack, so the public cannot verify the authorities' claims. However, screenshots circulated before their disappearance show nothing resembling Polish nationalism: his profile picture is covered with a portrait of Pope John Paul II with a beer, a joke mocking Jesus and a picture of him wearing a gas mask holding a rainbow flag.
In a country where the national conservative circles are Catholic, this seems, to say the least, strange.
The killer's former classmates also describe a completely different picture. They say that he drew in his notebooks pictures of wars, gallows and scenes of school attacks, and that many times they joked that one day he would kill someone. Neighbors described a reclusive young man who rarely spoke and wore a mask.
Before going to Krakow, he shot and killed his parents and his 21-year-old sister, a student at the Academy of Arts in Krakow. Unverified information on X indicates that his father was active in a small right-wing party.