Krakow Shooting: New Findings Challenge Minister Kierwiński’s Far-Right Narrative

Krakow Shooting: New Findings Challenge Minister Kierwiński’s Far-Right Narrative

Minister of the Interior and Administration Marcin Kierwiński has spread disinformation around the world, casting a shadow over Poland’s reputation. Publicly attributing far-right views to the perpetrator of the attack in Kraków (whatever that actually means, and whatever falls within such a vague definition), before any concrete evidence has been presented to the public, is irresponsible conduct unworthy of the office of Minister of the Interior and Administration.

Speaking to our news outlet, Police Aspirant Anna Zbroja-Zagórska of the Regional Police Headquarters in Kraków said that “it is too early to talk about the perpetrator’s motives and connections, because those will ONLY be investigated at later stages of the inquiry.”

Kierwiński’s words spread through the international media almost instantly. AFP and the Associated Press circulated reports linking the perpetrator to the far right. As a result, audiences around the world are being given the impression that far-right extremists are running through the streets of Polish cities murdering people. Yet the grounds for such a characterization have not been made public.

Leftists blinded by ideology are spreading claims that the attacker was wearing symbols associated with nationalist organizations. They are using AI-generated images to back up those claims.

Of course, we cannot rule out the possibility that, in the future, some group of provocateurs (a so-called false-flag group)—a danger we have warned about for years—will commit a disgraceful act in order to pin the blame on the so-called right. In this case, however, all the arguments being put forward are overblown, and the perpetrator’s profile points instead to anti-human views.

What picture of the attacker emerges from the information we have obtained so far?

That of a disturbed individual who despised accepted social conventions. It is currently impossible to assign him a definite ideological label, but even a few of his posts are enough to show that he was not a man of conservative or right-wing views, but rather someone with anti-human, nihilistic and anti-civilizational beliefs.

The Kraków attack – what do we know about the perpetrator’s views?

According to witness accounts, the attacker:

• painted his fingernails black;
• always dressed in black;
• was gloomy and a loner;
• behaved strangely and shouted at people;
• wore pandemic face masks.
• at school, often drew grim pictures of people hanging from nooses and told his peers that he wanted to become an attacker

We also know that the attacker:

• was not a soldier,
• was not associated with the Territorial Defence Forces either
• worked as a lathe operator
• Had no ties to the so-called right (as Super Express reports, citing unofficial findings: “Michał O. has never had, and does not have, any ties to right-wing parties or far-right extremist organizations, and he was never a member of any such organization. The security services thoroughly examined the attacker’s online and social-media activity and found no trace linking the man to the far right. These are findings we have confirmed through several sources.”)

Two troubling circumstances that require investigation by the relevant authorities

1. The attacker’s disappearing social-media profiles

Yesterday evening, the perpetrator’s social-media profiles began disappearing. This may indicate that someone is deliberately deleting them to cover their tracks, including records of correspondence.

Two possible explanations come to mind: either the platforms’ administrators are doing it—but if so, why, and why are they not informing the public? Or someone who may have incited the perpetrator to commit the crime, or known about his plans, is behind the removal of the profiles.

2. Mysterious Wikipedia edits following the attack

After the killings and the attacker’s subsequent arrest by police, someone began editing Wikipedia entries—first the entry about the city of Kraków, and then the entry about the attack itself.

The edits began at 3:26 p.m. and were made from an account named “Almighty God – the Nature13” (Almighty God – Nature13).

The edits contained the following short message:

„BAN RELIGION BAN SCHOOL BAN ARMY BAN NATIONS and 0 BABIES GO NATURE In the name of our Almighty God – the Nature”.

In a more natural translation:

“Down with religion! Down with school! Down with the military! Down with nations! No babies! Back to nature! In the name of our almighty God—Nature!”

This is a far-left, anti-human manifesto.

It is extremely important to establish who edited these pages and whether that person was connected to the attacker in any way. If there was no connection, then the edits clearly show that the person was inspired by the attack. Someone who holds such views is undoubtedly extremely dangerous.

3. We have also established that Janusz Andrzej O. of Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, the father of the Kraków attacker, was associated with the electoral committees of two political groups. In 2020, he was nominated to a precinct electoral commission in Goździelin by the campaign committee of presidential candidate Paweł Tanajno. In 2023, he was nominated to an electoral commission in Magonie by the Normalny Kraj Electoral Committee. Normalny Kraj is a party outside parliament that emphasizes Polish sovereignty, civil liberties, the protection of Polish ownership, the development of the domestic economy, and opposition to excessive bureaucracy and the dominance of foreign capital. Paweł Tanajno, meanwhile, is associated primarily with economic liberalism, reducing bureaucracy, and business owners’ protests against pandemic restrictions. We have found no confirmation that Janusz Andrzej Oksiński ever stood for election himself, belonged to either of these groups, or identified with them ideologically. In this context, however, the tragedy within the perpetrator’s family remains a separate issue. If it is confirmed that the 24-year-old murdered his own father, mother and sister before the attack, this could point to deep hostility, even hatred, towards those closest to him, including their worldview. It is not known, however, what motivated those acts. That makes it all the more premature to attribute any particular political motive to the perpetrator.

Analysis of the perpetrator’s motives.

The fragments of information available to us do not allow us to determine the perpetrator’s motives with any certainty.

Nevertheless, we would like to examine this issue in greater depth.

Conservative and right-wing ideologies, even those described as “far right” (a term used by Minister Kierwiński, although we truly do not know how broadly he defines it or exactly what he means by it), are associated, among other things, with respect for the past, tradition, one’s own nation and the Catholic religion. We currently see no such views in the perpetrator.

A right-wing worldview (another very broad concept, but one we will use for the sake of simplicity) does not, of course, guarantee that someone who holds such views will not develop a mental illness, as a result of which they might, for example, misunderstand the idea of fighting illegal immigration and decide to become a self-appointed enforcer of law and public order. Unfortunately, such situations can occur. People differ, and mental disorders and illnesses can affect anyone, regardless of their worldview.

The fundamental question remains, however: what kind of right-winger murders his own parents and then shoots at random people? Perhaps only the kind who exists in the fever dreams of the Gazeta Wyborcza crowd and in Minister Kierwiński’s projections.

In this case, if we can speak of an ideologically motivated crime at all, the victims were chosen entirely at random (apart from the family, of course). Combined with the nihilistic posts published by the attacker, this leads us towards the theory that we are dealing with an individual whose attitude towards other human beings is profoundly disturbed.

Left-wing ideologies very often express hostility and contempt towards other human beings, describing people as parasites, claiming that a human being is worth less than an animal, or railing against hunters who are simply doing their jobs. Comments frequently include wishes that such a hunter and his entire family die or develop cancer.

Such anti-human beliefs may well lead, in time, to mental disorders and, worse still, to the carrying out of an anti-human campaign. Was that the case here? We do not know. What we do know is that such views are not uncommon among those who profess so-called love and tolerance. The internet is witness to that.

Important documents:

Wave of “far-right” reports following Minister Kierwiński’s remarks

Minister Marcin Kierwiński’s statement triggered a wave of reports in the international media linking the perpetrator of the Kraków attack to far-right ideology. Some news outlets went even further, putting such descriptions directly into their headlines, even though the motives behind the killings remain under investigation and no evidence confirming a political motive has been presented to the public.

Examples of coverage:

• AFP – Gunman “fascinated by the far right” kills six people in Kraków
• Sky News – Six people killed by a “far-right” gunman
• Euronews – Perpetrator reportedly fascinated by far-right ideologies
• BFMTV (France) – Gunman “fascinated by the far right”
• Der Spiegel (Germany) – Reports of far-right influences on the perpetrator
• The Guardian – Authorities cite right-wing ideology as a possible inspiration for the attack
• Le Monde (France) – Gunman “fascinated by the far right,” according to minister
• Associated Press – Authorities say the perpetrator held far-right views
• Reuters – Reports of possible influence of far-right ideology
• Der Tagesspiegel – Perpetrator reportedly acted out of far-right motives

Other posts by foreign news outlets on X:

• Newsweek – post by the news outlet on X
• CNBC – post by the news outlet on X
• HuffPost – post by the news outlet on X

Meanwhile, Polish media outlets published findings challenging claims that the perpetrator had organizational ties to the far right:

Super Express – Kraków shooting suspect has no ties to the extreme right: Our unofficial findings

It is also worth noting that the Ministry of the Interior and Administration itself warned against spreading unverified information:

Ministry of the Interior and Administration – statement on disinformation following the Kraków attack (X)

Supplement – 9 November 2026

Minister Kierwiński: Nothing Happened

“In cases like these, there are always initial hypotheses, information and preliminary clues,” Minister Kierwiński said. When the interviewer asked where these had come from and what those clues were, the minister replied that he would not elaborate and that the police were looking into those lines of inquiry. He then added that “we are not passing any judgments here.”

So let us recall the minister’s outrageous words, which supposedly did not amount to “passing any judgments”:

“Everything indicates that he was fascinated by far-right ideologies.”

And so…

If EVERYTHING indicated that “he was fascinated by far-right ideologies,” we would very much like to know what exactly that “everything” consisted of.

Could it have been the material planted by internet trolls (there really was a flood of such posts online, suggesting a coordinated campaign), with altered images of the perpetrator’s T-shirt, the Nazi SS-Totenkopf symbol superimposed on his helmet, claims that he was an activist for Konfederacja (Confederation), Konfederacja Korony Polskiej (Confederation of the Polish Crown), and so on?

The entire campaign was designed to create an unmistakable association: “far right = Nazism,” followed by “Nazism = the right.”

Apart from the above information that supposedly made “EVERYTHING POINT” in that direction, we can find nothing else. As a news outlet, we have come across nothing beyond these crude fakes.

Meanwhile, our editorial team’s analysis of material from a profile attributed to the perpetrator points to something entirely different from right-wing beliefs. Accounts from his former acquaintances also undermine that interpretation. One of the perpetrator’s friends from his school days said on TVN: “He didn’t have any tendencies that you could describe as right-wing.” The statement was quoted by Wirtualna Polska.

The minister simply brushes all this aside—as though nothing happened?

But something did happen!

Minister Kierwiński’s words spread through the international media almost instantly. AFP and the Associated Press circulated reports linking the perpetrator to the far right. As a result, audiences around the world are being given the impression that far-right extremists are running through the streets of Polish cities murdering people. Yet the grounds for such a characterization have not been made public.

One need only name the media outlets that spread these reports and look at the size of their followings on X and the number of views their posts received:

• CNN – 61.7 million followers;
• BBC News – 42.5 million followers; the post received 1.6 million views;
• HuffPost – 9.8 million followers;
• Sky News – 9.1 million followers; the post received 1.7 million views;
• CNBC – 6.2 million followers; more than 27,000 views;
• BFM – 4.5 million followers; more than 120,000 views;
• New York Post – 4.2 million followers; 67,800 views;
• The Telegraph – 3.4 million followers; 29,000 views;
• Newsweek – 3.4 million followers; just under 7,000 views;
• Le Parisien – 3.3 million followers; more than 100,000 views;
• Der Spiegel – 3 million followers; almost 12,000 views;
• Visegrád 24 – 2.4 million followers; more than 840,000 views;
• AFP News Agency – 2.4 million followers; 17,000 views;
• Spiegel EIL – 1.5 million followers; 110,000 views;
• The Mirror – 1.2 million followers; 5,422 views;
• Euronews – more than 600,000 followers; 45,000 views;
• California Post – 66,800 followers; 2,500 views;
• Les Spectateurs – 53,000 followers; 67,000 views.

Had it not been for the Herculean efforts of internet users, all of this would probably have passed without a murmur.

Yet the affair has had enormous consequences, as the examples above show.

Now WE demand the minister’s resignation! Someone holding such a position of responsibility cannot be allowed to escape the consequences of his words.

Enough of tarring and feathering Poland!

Minister Kierwiński: Nothing Happened