One of the two charismatic criminals involved in the abduction that gave the world term “Stockholm Syndrome” died at the age of 78, his family said.
Clark Oloffson – which in 1973. increased global notorality after the abduction and robbery of the Bank in Swedish capital – he died after a long-term illness, his family online Media Outlet Dagens etc. said.
During the six-day siege, Oloffson’s hostages began to sympathize with him and his accomplice, defending his actions as they grow hostile to the police.
The incident lends its name to the theory psychological condition that victims for abduction develop affection for their abduction.
The notorious siege of the Bank launched another man, Jan-Erik Olsson. After taking three women and a hostage men, looking for oloffson – when he previously became a prison – being brought to the bank from prison.
The Swedish authorities agreed on his demand, and Oloffson entered the bank, which was surrounded by the police.
For years, in an Aftonbladet newspaper, he claimed that he was asked to work as the interior of a man to keep safe in exchange for a reduced sentence, but accused officials not to respect the agreement.
Olofsson convinced one of the hostages, Kristin Earg, to talk to the Swedish Prime Minister on the phone on behalf of the robbers.
She prayed that he was allowed to leave the bank in the car to go with the kidnappers, talking to him: “I completely trust Clark and the robber … They didn’t do anything to us.”
She left, “On the contrary, they were very beautiful … Belief or not, but we had a good time here.”
During several telephone calls, EARG said to be afraid that her kidnappers would harm the police and defend their actions repeatedly.
In his memory she told Oloffson, “he promised to make sure nothing happens to me and I decided to trust him. I was 23 and was afraid for my life.”
The situation of the hostage ended after six days when the police broke through the roof and used tear gas to conquer a couple.
Initially, hostages refused to leave their freaks because of fear that police would shoot them. The hostages also later refused to testify against Oloffson and Olsson.
Experts discussed whether Stockholm syndrome is a real psychiatric situation, and some are argued that the defensive mechanism is to deal with traumatic situations.
The term was skilled in the last siege by the Swedish criminologist and psychiatrist Nils Bejerot to explain the seemingly irrational prisoners who feel for their bodywork.
The theory reached a wide audience next year when the California newspaper is an inheritance Patti Hearst He was kidnapped by revolutionary militants.
Telling about BBC’s lateral podcast 2021. YearsThe label bothered the concept of Stockholm syndrome, saying, “It’s a way of guilt the victim. I did what I could survive.”
Olofsson was a repeated offender and spent most of his life in prison. The last time was released last after serving a penalty for a drug violation in Belgium.
In 2022. The actor portrained him in Netflix Drama Series Clark.
