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Between 23rd and 29th of August 1973, 4 hostages were held in Norrmalstorg bank in Stockholm, Sweden. Their captor was Jan Olsen , a convicted bank robber who crafted a plan from prison to bargain hostages for his ticket out of the country. 

The events of the robbery will further coin the term Stockholm syndrome. Bank robberies are not always motivated by profit only. This is a story of one of those cases.

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Sources:

New Yorker:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1974/11/25/the-bank-drama/amp

Express article:

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.express.co.uk/expressyourself/124726/We-were-the-first-victims-of-Stockholm-syndrome/amp

Wiki:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan-Erik_Olsson

The Journal:

https://www.thejournal.ie/where-stockholm-syndrome-phrase-came-from-1047449-Aug2013/?amp=1

Hostage : https://open.spotify.com/episode/0MumRI6KS6FLDSF4SnHIpC?si=Lot_HaaERt62AT9tDneLyg