The March of Silence has begun in Kraków to honor the victims of Saturday’s attack on the Main Square and to show solidarity with the loved ones of those harmed. President Karol Nawrocki, Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Kraków Mayor Łukasz Gibała are taking part, along with Cardinal Grzegorz Ryś, the metropolitan archbishop of Kraków.
As planned, the procession began at the corner of the Main Square and Sławkowska Street. Participants will then walk to St. Mary’s Basilica, where the crowd already stretched even before the march began. The last stop will be at the Town Hall Tower. The St. Mary’s bugle call, the hejnał mariacki, sounded.
Many police patrols are stationed on the Main Square. Officers of the State Protection Service (SOP) are also present.
On Saturday, a 24-year-old man drove a car onto the Main Square in Kraków and opened fire from an automatic weapon at random people. Six people were killed and 16 were injured, including two police officers and the attacker, who died in the hospital early Monday. In Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, in the apartment of the attacker’s family, police found the bodies of his parents and sister. (PAP)
March of Silence Reaches Town Hall Tower for Prayer and Trumpet Tribute
Participants in the March of Silence in Kraków reached the Town Hall Tower, where a trumpeter played the melody “The Sound of Silence.” Those gathered recited the Our Father and the Eternal Rest prayer.
“We walked this entire way in silence. Prayer should not be wordy. I invite you to say the simplest prayer, which we all know,” said Cardinal Grzegorz Ryś, the metropolitan archbishop of Kraków, before the prayer, which he recited with the crowd in front of a microphone.
After the prayer, Kraków Mayor Łukasz Gibała thanked everyone for coming. (PAP)
