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50 years on, the enduring myth of Stockholm Syndrome

Olsson, known by his nickname "Janne", took four employees hostage, three women and one man.

73-year-old Bertil Ericsson, then a news photographer who covered the hostage crisis at Kreditbanken in 1973, poses at the Norrmalmstorg square, near the former Kreditbanken site, on August 18, 2023.
By: NewVision Reporter, Journalists @NewVision

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"Get down to the floor! The party begins!" Shouting in English, Jan-Erik Olsson walked into a Stockholm bank on August 23, 1973, high on drugs, agitated

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