11月8日星期日，波兰醒来时感觉自己仿佛被暴力推入了一个新时代。前一天下午3点，在克拉科夫，一名男子从车内用自动武器开火，在历史悠久的市中心市场广场附近造成六人死亡、十五人受伤，该地区是游客喜爱的地方。经过持续约20分钟的枪战，他在几条街外被捕。
Poland woke up on Sunday, November 8, feeling as if it had been violently thrust into a new era. The previous day, at 3 pm in Krakow, a man opened fire with an automatic weapon from his car, killing six people and wounding 15 others around the market square in the historic city center, an area popular with tourists. He was arrested a few streets away after a shootout that lasted about 20 minutes.
他在被捕时受伤，被送往医院并被拘留。警方将其确认为米哈乌·O.，一名24岁的波兰国民，无犯罪记录，来自克拉科夫东北140公里的奥斯托维埃茨·维恩托热茨基。当晚，警方在其家中公寓发现其父母和妹妹的尸体。
He was injured during his arrest and taken into custody at the hospital. Police identified him as Michal O., a 24-year-old Polish national with no criminal record, from Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski, a city 140 kilometers northeast of Krakow. Later that evening, police found the bodies of his parents and sister in the family apartment.
调查初步结果未能澄清米哈乌·O.的动机，但揭示了一名持有激进思想的年轻人的画像，据波兰内政部长马尔钦·基耶维恩斯基称，他“着迷于极右翼意识形态”。打击网络犯罪中央局加入调查，审查媒体和社交媒体上关于可能与极端组织有关联的报道。星期天上午，检察官宣布对一起“恐怖主义性质”的行为展开调查。
Initial findings from the investigation did not clarify Michal O.'s motives but revealed the profile of a young man with radical ideas, "fascinated by far-right ideologies," according to Polish Interior Minister Marcin Kierwinski. The Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime joined the investigation to examine reports in the media and on social media about possible links to radical groups. On Sunday morning, prosecutors announced an investigation into an act of a "terrorist nature."