Polish unity on show in silent march to honour Krakow shooting victims

Thousands of people joined a silent march through central Krakow on Monday night, in memory of those killed and injured when a gunman went on a violent rampage at the weekend. The crowd were led by Poland's president and prime minister, the bitter political rivals putting on a rare show of unity after the country's deadliest attack in modern times. Many people were carrying flowers or candles to leave at the shrines that now dot the cobblestones, one marking each spot where someone died.

Fiercely proud of its reputation for safety, Poland has been profoundly shaken by this attack. It has left people struggling to make some kind of sense of what happened. Initially, the interior minister claimed that Oksinski was driven by far-right, extremist views.

The national prosecutor's office now says that it's too soon to say he was "inspired" by any ideology. "The minister wanted to win domestic political points. That's not responsible behaviour," Dr Pawel Musialek of the Jagiellonian University suggests, in a country where politics is highly - and often viciously - polarised.