Krakow attack: Jakub Kulik and Artur Morański, the two policemen who arrested the shooter

Jakub Kulik and Artur Morański are the two policemen greeted in Poland for facing the Krakow shooter on Saturday, November 7, 2026. Both were injured in the operation. While LCI devoted a report to the men who were able to neutralize the attacker, RMF FM clarified their identity and role: they belonged to the first crew who came into direct contact with him. [S1] [S17]

Two agents under 30 years of age

The two officials are under thirty years of age and have been serving in the police for several years, according to the spokesman for the police in Petite-Poland, Katarzyna Cisło, quoted by RMF FM. Their action is part of a wider mobilization: the general commander of the police, Marek Boroń, indicates that thirty crews were dispatched after the alert. Kulik and Morański were the first to face the assailant, while other patrols came in support. [S17]

Their condition still required hospital care. On Sunday morning, the spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, Karolina Gałecka, described the state of one as stable and that of the other as serious, but stable. This information, reported on 8 November, does not prejudge their subsequent medical development. A call for blood donation was also made for Jakub Kulik. [S17]

Prime Minister Donald Tusk described them as "real heroes," believing that they had probably saved many lives at the risk of losing theirs. Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński also found that their reaction had prevented a heavier tragedy. These assessments by the authorities welcome their intervention; They do not constitute a verifiable count of the additional casualties that the shooter could have made. [S17]

A chase, then an exchange of fire

The municipality places the beginning of the attack on Saturday, shortly after 3 p.m., in the Place du Grand Marché. A 24-year-old man got there by car before shooting at passersby. Time and RTS then report a prosecution with the police: at an intersection, the assailant hit a vehicle at the stop, got out of his car and opened fire on both agents. [S19] [S5] [S2]

Both police officers were hit. According to RTS, however, one of them managed to neutralize the shooter despite his injuries. RMF FM reports that the first police fire towards the attacker occurred three minutes after the report. The elements consulted do not make it possible to attribute with certainty to one of the two agents each gesture of this confrontation. [S2] [S17]

Six dead in Krakow, a record of the wounded still discordant

The municipality, franceinfo and Le Temps reported six people killed and 15 injured in the attack. Radio Kraków and RMF FM, however, report 16 injuries. The exact origin of this difference is not established in these publications: it is therefore appropriate to retain this reserve rather than to present a unanimous assessment. The two policemen were among the injured. [S19] [S4] [S5] [S18] [S17]

These stories concern the same attack. Some French-speaking covers nevertheless mention Warsaw in the middle of a story about Krakow, while West France alternates between November 7 and 8. The municipal communiqué explicitly places the facts in Krakow on 7 November; These inconsistencies should not lead to artificially merging several events. [S3] [S12] [S19]

Suspect's death does not close investigation

The shooter died in the hospital in the early morning of Monday, November 9, announced the police. Identified by several media like Michal O., he is also suspected of killing his parents and sister, found dead by bullets in Ostrowiec 简więtokrzyski. The nine victims mentioned in some accounts bring together the six people killed in Krakow and these three relatives. [S4] [S5] [S18]

An investigation for "terrorist" acts has been initiated. The Minister of the Interior mentioned a fascination for extreme right ideologies, but the investigators stress that the motivations remain to be deepened. Radio Kraków, citing Prosecutor Eryk Stasielak, states that investigations into the circumstances, motive and possible links of the assailant continue despite his death. The recognition of the courage of the police therefore does not erase the questions of the families or the need to establish precisely the responsibilities. [S4] [S2] [S18]