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.
"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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