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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.
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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.
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As they reached the historic Market Square, a bugler played from the tower.
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Many people were carrying flowers or candles to leave at the shrines that now dot the cobblestones, one marking each spot where someone died.
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Fiercely proud of its reputation for safety, Poland has been profoundly shaken by this attack.
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It has left people struggling to make some kind of sense of what happened.
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The alleged gunman has been named as 24-year-old Michal Oksinski by local media.
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Critically injured in a shoot-out with police, he did not regain consciousness and died in hospital early on Monday.
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Initially, the interior minister claimed that Oksinski was driven by far-right, extremist views.
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The national prosecutor's office now says that it's too soon to say he was "inspired" by any ideology.
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"The minister wanted to win domestic political points.
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That's not responsible behaviour," Dr Pawel Musialek of the Jagiellonian University suggests, in a country where politics is highly - and often viciously - polarised.
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"So far we've seen no clear message that this guy was strongly ideological, and that it's not more like something from the darknet."
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There's been no mention of any letter or manifesto that Oksinski left.
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One neighbour told Polish news site Onet that the 24-year-old was a "bit of a loner" but few who knew him well have spoken publicly.
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In addition to his electronic devices like his phone, investigators are examining a number of badges that Oksinski had attached to his military-style outfit.
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The prosecutor's office says a yellow Gadsden flag with a coiled snake symbol was displayed in his bedroom.
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"It has various meanings of freedom and rebellion," a spokesman emphasised.
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It was at Oksinski's home that the bodies of his parents and sister were discovered.
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It's alleged that he shot them, before driving some 200km (125 miles) south to continue the killing in Krakow.
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Two days on, shops and cafes around the market square are beginning to fill up again, but the mood is subdued.
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A Zara clothes shop is still boarded up, after bullets smashed the glass.
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A local man in his 50s died just outside.
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Jo, a Scottish tourist, saw paramedics "who got there ridiculously fast", fighting to save him.
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Like many, she initially mistook the rifle shots for fireworks.
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On the opposite corner of the square, beside another cluster of flowers, people keep pausing to take pictures of the holes that were blasted into the wall by gunfire.
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One of the six victims has been identified as a Polish painter in her 50s, who was a mother of four, and in town with friends for an exhibition opening.
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A British citizen and an Austrian who died are yet to be named publicly.
Several drivers of the horse-drawn carriages that are usually poised to trot tourists around the square were seriously injured.
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Olha, who works in a nearby chocolate shop says everyone is now nervous.
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On Saturday, people rushed into her store to escape the gunman who was tearing around in his car, firing through the window.
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Olha is Ukrainian, and moved to Krakow when Russia invaded.
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"We left our own country for safety.
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This is supposed to be a safe place!" she exclaimed.
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Especially that he drove all the way here for two hours, planning this and thinking about it."
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She regrets that the gunman did not survive: "So many are dead, so many lives have been ruined, and now there will be no justice."
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When Oksinski's car was searched, four firearms and "hundreds of rounds of ammunition" were found, all owned legally by the alleged killer and his father.
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Both were members of the Swit Starachowice sports club, where there is a shooting range.
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A spokesman recalls Michal Oksinski as unremarkable: average competition results and normal behaviour.
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The club spokesman is adamant that it does not train combat firing, only shooting from a fixed point.
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Gun ownership in Poland has grown considerably since war broke out in Ukraine just across the border, but this is the first mass shooting anyone here can remember.
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…and 12 more, not listed.
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