"Spontaneous Applause Broke Out"

• 10.11.2026, 10:11

A touching moment at the Main Market Square in Krakow.

Following Saturday’s terrorist attack in Krakow, city officials announced a March of Silence.

The event was attended by President Karol Nawrocki, Prime Minister Donald Tusk, and Kraków Mayor Łukasz Gibala.

A few hours before the march, the square filled with people immersed in grief. “There are quite a lot of people in the square; traffic is not obstructed, and one can see, in particular, large groups of foreign tourists. People are paying their respects in various locations. The presence of law enforcement is noticeable: at least a dozen and a half police vehicles of various sizes can be seen in the square and on the surrounding streets,” reported a correspondent from Kraków’s Main Square Onet Krzysztof Pulak.

“A beautiful scene a few hours before the start of the March of Silence in Kraków. Spontaneous applause broke out after the heynal at 5:00 p.m. People, lost in thought, paid tribute to the victims by lighting candles, including outside the Zara building,” he wrote on X. It was into this very store that people fled on Saturday to escape the gunfire.

On Saturday, a 24-year-old man drove his car into the Main Market Square in Kraków and opened fire with an automatic weapon on random people. Six people were killed, and 16 were wounded, including two police officers and the attacker himself, who died in the hospital early Monday morning. In Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, in the attacker’s family’s apartment, police discovered the bodies of his parents and sister.