Stockholm Sweden Bank Robbery 1973

The norrmalmstorg robbery was a bank robbery and hostage crisis best known as the origin of the term stockholm syndromeit occurred at the norrmalmstorg square in stockholm sweden in august 1973 and was the first criminal event in sweden covered by live television.

Stockholm sweden bank robbery 1973. 23 aug 1973 a bank rober who failed in his robbery attempt held hostage six bank employees demanded 250 000 ransom getaway car and a safe passage out of sweden. 29 aug 1973 arrest of bank robber jan erik olsson after 6 day seige at a bank in norrmalmstorg square stockholm in which four hostages were held note. This is the seige that gave rise to. On the morning of august 23 1973 an escaped convict crossed the streets of swedens capital city and entered a bustling bank the sveriges kreditbanken on stockholms upscale norrmalmstorg.

You can license this story. Who then held up a bank and took four. The man then orders everyone in the bank to lie down on the floor places a radio on the bank counter and. On the morning of august 23 1973 an escaped convict crossed the streets of swedens capital city and entered a bustling bank the sveriges kreditbanken on stockholms upscale norrmalmstorg square.

Olsson had intended only to rob the bank at gunpoint and make off with his. It is 1002 in the morning on thursday 23 august 1973 when a masked man enters the kreditbanken at norrmalmstorg in stockholm and fires a few shots from his machine gun into the ceiling. On this day in 1973 jan erik olsson took four bank workers hostage at the sveriges kreditbank in stockholm sweden.