Twerking Reality in Poland
This lunatic was not “fascinated by far-right ideologies”. But that’s what Tusk’s lackeys would have you believe.
Recap:
Six people were killed and 15 wounded after a gunman opened fire this afternoon in a busy market square in the Polish city of Krakow. The perpetrator was shot and wounded during a gunfight with police. Three more slain victims were later found at the suspect’s home. The Polish interior minister told a news briefing that the suspect was “influenced by far-right ideology”.
It has been discovered that the Kraków attacker, Michał Oksiński, was a radical left-wing, antifascist and anarcho-communist activist who mocked Christianity.
Tusk’s government and the left wing media tried to link him to right-wing groups, but it is now known that this is not the case.
Mourn the Six, Honor the Officer, Shame the Minister
Start with the man who matters most in this story. On Saturday afternoon, in Kraków’s Main Market Square, a 25-year-old in camouflage and a bulletproof vest drove into the square and began shooting random people with a military-style rifle.
Polish police officers ran toward the gunfire. In the exchange of fire — in which two officers were wounded — police shot the attacker and stopped him. Six people were already dead, four women and two men, and sixteen were injured.
Without those officers, and above all the one whose shots ended it, the toll would have been worse. In a country where this kind of massacre is almost unknown, their seconds of courage are the reason Saturday was a tragedy and not something larger. Poland owes them more than a press release.
The nation responded as a nation should. President Nawrocki declared two days of national mourning — today and tomorrow. Flags are lowered, families are preparing funerals, and a British citizen is among the dead. This is the Poland of the square: officers bleeding to protect strangers, a country grieving together.
And then the Minister of the Interior stepped up to the microphones. Before any court had heard a word, before the prosecutors and the Internal Security Agency he himself oversees had established a motive, Marcin Kierwiński announced his conclusion to the whole country: “Everything indicates he was fascinated by far-right ideologies.” Everything indicates — on the first day, from the podium of the state, while the investigation he cited was still opening its files.
Understand what that sentence is designed to do. It does not describe the murderer; it assigns him — to a political direction. And in Poland, the right is not a cellar of extremists. It is millions of ordinary people whose convictions are built on family, church, homeland, work and law and order — the same people who gave President Nawrocki ten and a half million votes.
A fascination with murdering strangers in a market square is not a right-wing value. It is the negation of everything those voters believe: the sanctity of life, the protection of family, a faith whose commandments begin with “thou shalt not kill.”
For this government, “far right” is not a diagnosis. It is a filing cabinet. The president’s voters go into it, the Tribunal’s defenders go into it, everyone who wants a guarded border goes into it. Only yesterday, the state’s own institute counted 9,649 disinformation items circulating about the court crisis and warned Poles against manipulated narratives. Insinuation from a minister’s podium needs no fake photograph. It is a narrative with an official seal — delivered before the evidence, in the middle of national mourning.
And notice the questions the minister did not answer, because they belong to his own desk. How did a 25-year-old accumulate several firearms and a large quantity of ammunition — the arsenal police found in his car?
Were the weapons licensed? Was he known to any service? Were there warning signs, and who missed them? The officers of his ministry stopped the attack within minutes. The system of his ministry apparently never noticed the arsenal being built.
Those are the first-day questions of an interior minister — about his own portfolio. He chose instead to talk about the ideology of millions of voters.
The irony should not be lost on anyone. The values the minister smeared were present on that square — wearing uniforms. Duty, order, family, sacrifice: the wounded officers live them. The actual Polish right was not the man with the rifle. It was the men who ran at him.
There is a time for establishing who this murderer was and what filled his head, and that time belongs to the investigation — the same investigation the minister invoked while pre-empting it. If the evidence shows an extremist fascination, let it be proven, named precisely, and prosecuted. What a minister may not do is convert six coffins into an argument against his political opponents before the victims are buried.
Poland will remember two things from Kraków. It will remember the officer who fired the shots that stopped a terrorist while his colleagues lay wounded. And it will remember the minister who, given a national tragedy, reached first for a label. One of them served the country. The other served the narrative — and every Pole who goes to church, raises a family, and votes for the right heard exactly what his government thinks of him.