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1970s Sweden, the bank heist and hostage crisis that police and the prime minister invented ‘Stockholm Syndrome’
2026-09-20
… to cover up their shocking incompetence. It just gets worse and worse the more you watch. The media naturally made it worserer.
Naturally. One hour long.
[YouTube] The Bank Heist That Made Hostages Switch Sides

August 28th, 1973, at 10:00 AM. Central Stockholm was waking up to a crisp Tuesday morning.

Bicycles sat unlocked by the sidewalks, and children walked to school completely unattended. A man waiting for the metro read the morning newspaper; the headlines only reported minor incidents.

In other words, a criminal incident was the furthest thing from anyone’s mind in the Swedish capital, especially not one that would put the lives of innocent people in danger. So no one found it suspicious when a tall, heavily built man with a large canvas bag walked through the grand doors of the Sveriges Kreditbank.

Even though, to any onlookehis nr, he looked absurd, almost like a theatrical caricature. He wore a gray zippered sweatshirt, a flamboyant women’s wig, and large, blue-tinted sunglasses. A fake mustache was stuck to his lip, and his face was heavily smeared with dark shoe cream, a crude attempt to alter his skin tone and disguise his identity.

Unsurprisingly, this man was not visiting the bank to make a deposit.

Seconds after stepping inside, he dropped the bag, ripped open his sweatshirt, and pulled out a submachine gun, firing a deafening burst straight into the ceiling.

What followed would become the most chaotic six days in modern Swedish history… involving a hostage situation so badly bungled by the police that the captives would end up siding with their captors, against the very people who were supposed to be rescuing them.

Let’s get into it.

Sources: https://rentry.co/7x5pto57
Wikipedia names names:
Jan-Erik Olsson, a convict on parole, took four employees (three women and one man) hostage during a failed bank robbery of Kreditbanken, one of the largest banks in Stockholm. He negotiated for his friend Clark Olofsson to be released from prison to assist him. They held the hostages captive for six days (23–28 August) in one of the bank vaults.
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