Tagesschau: ‘act of terror’, Interfax: ‘shooting’: six dead in Kraków
After the shooting on Kraków's main market square that killed six people, police found the bodies of the suspect's parents and sister. Germany's Tagesschau stresses national mourning, wounded officers and foreign victims, while Russia's Interfax gives a shorter report on the bodies and casualty figures.
What Western media report
Germany's public broadcaster Tagesschau reports that Poland has declared national mourning and that the 24-year-old is suspected of killing nine people: six passers-by plus his parents and sister. It says 15 people were wounded, including foreign nationals, and that two police officers were critically wounded in an exchange of fire. President Karol Nawrocki, as quoted by Tagesschau, calls it an ‘unprecedented act of terror’. According to the outlet the motive is unclear, and investigators are examining indications that the suspect was fascinated by far-right ideologies.
What media from these countries report: Russia
Russia's Interfax, a state-controlled or state-influenced outlet, relays a Polish police statement on X about the bodies of three family members aged 53, 52 and 21, found in an apartment in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski. It writes that, according to European media, all three apparently died of gunshot wounds. It gives six dead (four women and two men) and ‘more than ten’ injured. According to Interfax the attacker is a Polish citizen who was wounded during his arrest and taken to hospital, and there are reports of his far-right views.
Differences
- Tagesschau quotes the president calling the event an ‘act of terror’; Interfax uses the more neutral word ‘shooting’ and does not mention such a label.
- Tagesschau gives 15 wounded; Interfax says ‘more than ten’.
- Tagesschau speaks of the ‘parental home’ and explicitly of suspicion that the suspect killed his family; Interfax speaks of an ‘apartment’ and only states that the bodies were found.
- Interfax omits national mourning, the wounded police officers, the weapons found in the car and the foreign victims (including a Russian national), all of which Tagesschau reports.
- Interfax gives the sex of the victims and the ages of the family members, while Tagesschau lists the nationalities of the foreign victims.
Where they agree
- Both outlets report six people killed in the shooting on Kraków's main market square.
- Both report that the attacker's parents and sister were found dead in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski.
- Both say the attacker is 24, was wounded and arrested, and that the motive has not been established.
- Both mention possible far-right views on the part of the perpetrator.
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