Poland Shooting: Five Killed And More Than A Dozen Injured

But look, as we were just hearing in the news bulletins, five people have been killed and around a dozen have been injured in a shooting in the Polish capital of Krakow. Now, police say that the suspect who was shot by officers has been taken to hospital. The shooting happened in the main market square about two hours ago. Well, let's now speak with the Polish journalist and newspaper deputy editor Bartosz Wilinski. Bartosz, welcome to the show. Thank you very Thank you very much for joining us. Can you just tell us what you know about Well, two hours ago, a car drove by by the Krakow's market square. This is a central touristic place, crowded. And the driver started to shoot at random people from the rifle. And he was chased by the police, was stopped, shot. But in the meanwhile, he managed to kill five persons and injured, well, dozens. Thank There are policemen among wounded from that that are here and five dead. This is the world's largest tragedy that can't be. We had in Poland, we don't know anything about the nationality of the well shooter. His intentions are unknown. That would be no, you. he has been arrested and brought to the hospital where his wounds will be treated. But this is a tragedy, never happened in Poland before. This is the first I'm a terrorist attack in my country. Krakow used to be a thriving touristic place also for British people and well I'm sure soon we'll see. Something shouldn't have happened but we received a lot of warnings before that something big might come to Poland and we were thinking Well, in relation to that what's happening with Russia, the Ukraine war. And we thought about, you know, infiltration by Russian special forces, by some drone attacks. And while it happened on the home front in the middle of Krakow, terrorist attacks, something nobody was thinking on before that. So, so, um, Probably this is somehow linked to the situation in Ukraine, but there is no official proof of that. I mean, that's interesting. I mean, as you say, we have to wait to get more information, but that's an interesting observation that you have made. And just tell us a little bit about what that main market square is like. How busy would it have been? What kind of people would have been in the square? Well, this is a historical old town of Krakow, well, old buildings with a kind of, you know, market hall in the middle and, well, one of the most famous churches in Europe. Thank Touristic place with the fancy restaurants, an expensive one, crowded. Well, now the weather is bad, as it is in November in Poland, but I've still seen the footage, video footage, so there are many people there. Thank Well, having a good time there, well, in a nice city, nice place. you. There's a... Well, I think it was... Targeted deliberately because of its historical and tourist value and because of those crowds of people spending the time. you. And it's a very... It's like, you know, yeah, comparing to London is some kind of, I don't know, well... Smaller version of Piccadilly. Yes, of course. The place that tourists must visit when they are in the town. Yes, I mean, it's a place I've visited myself as a young person. And just finally, Bartosz, what has Donald Tusk said about this or any other sort of leaders? Well, so the ministers are traveling there to Krakow to be on scene. There was a message from the minister of interior, a message from the minister of justice, minister of defense. So Tusk will be on his route to Krakow. The president was also involved. So the nation will mourn. This is assured. The nation will mourn. We have never, we used to have, well, catastrophes in transportation, natural disasters, but we never experienced a terrorist attack. And this is some kind of very sad breakthrough in our history. We never faced such a threat before. Well, Bartosz, I'm so sorry about what's happened. I can hear in your voice how... upset you and many, many others will be. And of course, we'll get more information when it comes in. But thank you very much for speaking with us. This is Bartosz Wilinski, who is a Polish journalist and newspaper deputy editor. And of course, we'll bring you more information on that story as it comes through. Right, coming up next, does the television industry have questions to answer about how it enabled Russell Brand? That's coming up next, but it's just gone 11 minutes past four. You're listening to Ayesha Hazarika on Times Radio.