One of the charismatic criminals involved in the kidnapping of the term “Stockholm Syndrome” died at age 78, his family said.
Clark Oloffson, who rose in 1973 due to kidnapping and bank robbery in the Swedish capital, died of a long disease, and his family told online media outlets.
During the six -day siege, Oloffson’s hostage began to sympathize with him and his accomplices, and grew more hostile to outside police, defending their actions.
The incident lends a name in a theoretical psychological state, developing affection for kidnappers.
The infamous bank siege attacked by another, Jan-Erik Olsson. He grabbed three women and male hostages, and asked Oloffson, who had previously became friends in prison, to bring it to the bank.
The Swedish authorities agreed to his demands and Oloffson entered the bank and was surrounded by the police.
A few years later, in an interview with the Afterbladet newspaper, he was asked to work as an insiduate to keep the prisoners safely in return for reducing sentence, but officials insisted that they did not respect this agreement.
OLOFSSON persuaded the prime minister to talk to Prime Minister Swedish by phone instead of the intensity, one of the Kristin Enmark.
She pleaded with the kidnappers to leave the bank to the escape car. “I completely believed in Clark and robbery.
She continued: “On the contrary, they were very good … Believe it or we had a great time here.”
ENMARK, who is making several calls, said she was afraid that her kidnappers would be harmed by the police and would repeatedly defend their actions.
She talked about Olofon in the memoir.
The hostage situation ended six days after the police officers pierced the roof and conquered the pair using tear gas.
At first, the hostage refused to be feared by the police that he would be shot by the police. Hostage later rejected testimony of Oloffson and Olsson.
Later, experts have discussed whether Stockholm Syndrome is a real psychiatric state, and some argue that it is a defensive mechanism to cope with trauma.
The term was made in the aftermath of siege attacks by Swedish criminals and psychiatrists Nils Bejerot.
The theory reached more audiences when Patty Hearst, the California newspaper inheritance, was kidnapped by revolutionary armed forces.
In 2021, he talked about the podcast next to the BBC, and Mark rubbed the concept of Stockholm syndrome.
Olofsson was a repeated criminal and sent most of his life in prison. He was released in 2018 after he was sentenced to drug crime in Belgium.
In 2022, actor Bill Skarsgård described him in the Netflix drama series Clark.