Police have detained nine people in connection with publishing disturbing content online after the attack in Kraków, spokeswoman for the Ministry of Interior and Administration Karolina Gałecka said on Tuesday, 10 November.
The spokeswoman published the information on X on Tuesday afternoon. She announced that police will “firmly respond to all posts glorifying the perpetrator of the attack”, and their authors “must expect consequences”.
Who was detained
According to the spokeswoman, among those detained is one Ukrainian citizen, for whom deportation is planned. The remaining people are Polish citizens. The detentions took place in various parts of the country.
On Monday, the Central Cybercrime Bureau (CBZC) reported six people detained since Saturday. Tuesday’s figure is therefore a cumulative total, including earlier detentions.
What police are checking
Gałecka said the main concern is content glorifying the attack on the Main Square, which “causes concern”. Some posts reportedly contained threats of repeating the attack in another city. The CBZC monitors the internet around the clock, and services are, as the spokeswoman said, particularly alert to possible copycats of the perpetrator.
The spokeswoman stressed that these people are at the disposal of police and will be questioned. She did not present their explanations or say what charges individual detainees face. She noted that they risk penalties of up to five years in prison.
Those detained are presumed innocent – it is not yet known whether and who will be charged.
Background: Saturday’s attack
On Saturday, 7 November, a man drove a car onto the Main Square in Kraków and opened fire on random people. We wrote about this in our article about the shooter’s arrest on the Square. We described the condition of the injured in our report about patients at the Kraków hospital.
