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Women fall in love with kidnappers, and victims assist the perpetrators — a commonplace passage in film fiction, born out of reality, a term we all know: Stockholm Syndrome.
Pictured: Hostages fall in love with kidnappers is a common part of the film
Why is Stockholm Syndrome called? Originating from a bank kidnapping in Sweden, a famous true story.
On the morning of August 23, 1973, a man in his early 30s walked into a credit bank in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, pulled a submachine gun from his jacket, fired at the ceiling, and shouted in English: "The party has just begun!" ”
Pictured: Police cars and police officers who have heard the news
The man, jan-erik olsson, from Helsinki, was a habitual offender who had committed several armed robberies and acts of violence and spent three years in prison.
After injuring a security guard who pressed a silent siren, Olson took four bank employees hostage and held them in a bank vault to confront the police who had arrived on the news. Of the four hostages, three are female: Christine, Elizabeth, and Bilgeta, and one male: Swain.
Photo: Olson (center) and four hostages
Olsen made three demands from the police: 1.3 million Swedish kronor in cash; 2. an escaped car; and 3. The release of Clark Olofsen. Olofson was his cellmate in prison, a bank robber and Olson's idol.
Fearing harm to the hostages, the Swedish police were very cooperative and within hours agreed to all the demands: cash was brought and Olofssen was released, a blue Ford Mustang filled with gasoline.
However, when Olsen offered to take the hostages in the same car, the police resolutely refused. The two sides have been locked in a long stalemate.
Photo: Photojournalist and sniper police upstairs opposite
The high-profile bank kidnapping quickly made headlines around the world and was broadcast live on Swedish television. The curiosity of the Swedish people was completely aroused, and the police headquarters received numerous civilian suggestions, some suggesting that the Salvation Army play religious music to impress criminals, and others suggesting that swarms of bees bees beetle criminals bee.
There was chaos outside, and no one expected that in the cold bank vault, the hostages had formed a strange bond with the kidnappers.
Pictured: Olsen and the hostages in the film
The four hostages are trapped in a narrow bank vault, and at night, Olsen shows unexpected kindness. Kristen was cold, olsen draped her wool coat over her shoulders and comforted her during her nightmares; Elizabeth complained that she had claustrophobia, olsen allowed her to walk outside with a 30-foot rope to breathe; Bilgeta worried about the two children in the family, Olsen asked her to contact her family by phone, the first time did not get through, Olson comforted: "Try again, don't give up." ”
Pictured: Four hostages in a vault
However, Olson is not a gentleman, he has roughly strangled Elizabeth's neck and threatened to use her as a meat shield, and plans to kill the male hostage Sven to show his determination to the police.
With Olson's en-wei and mercy, the four hostages soon sided with the kidnappers, who feared the police even more than the kidnappers. Later, when the police chief was allowed to enter the bank to check the hostage's health, he noticed that the hostage seemed hostile to him, but had a relaxed and pleasant relationship with the kidnappers.
During the standoff, Kristin called Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palmer and begged him to allow him to flee in a car with the kidnappers. She assured the prime minister: "He didn't do anything to us, on the contrary it was very good for us. However, I fear that a police attack will lead to our deaths. ”
Pictured: A scene at a bank counter
During the stalemate, Olson once planned to shoot Sven in the leg and threaten the police, but Kristen actually helped him convince his male colleague: "Sven, just shoot in the leg." ”
In the end, Olson didn't shoot. After more than 130 hours of standoffs, on the night of August 28, police finally moved and fired tear gas into the vault. Olsen quickly surrendered. The police called for the hostages to come out first, but the four hostages refused in order to protect the kidnappers. Christine shouted, "No, if we come out first, you'll shoot!" ”
Photo: Olson after his arrest
So Olsen and the hostage went out at the same time, and at the door he and the hostage hugged and kissed one by one. As the police twisted Olsen, two women shouted, "Don't hurt him, he didn't hurt us!" ”
Pictured: Christine after being rescued
The hostages' seemingly unreasonable loyalty to the kidnappers plagued the public and the police, who even investigated whether Christine and Olson had conspired to plan the robbery. In fact, even the hostages themselves were confused. The day after her release, Elizabeth asked the psychiatrist, "Do I have any questions?" Why don't I hate kidnappers? ”
Olson later spent several years in prison, visiting several hostages and having a relationship with him. In prison, Olsen received many letters of admiration from women who thought Olson was both brash and gentlemanly, and a romantic lover.
Pictured: Olsen in his later years
After his release in 1980, Olsen married a woman who fell in love with him, moved to Thailand to have children, and returned home in his later years to apologize to all the hostages.
In this case, the peculiar hostage loyalty to the kidnapper, the psychiatrist explained that in a special environment, the hostages and the kidnappers developed the same fate, and because they survived, they felt emotionally burdened with the kidnapper, not the police.
Pictured: Stockholm Syndrome reveals human weaknesses
Experts further analyzed: people are born with the instinct of self-interest and self-preservation, and when their lives are in danger, the hostages will succumb to the kidnappers, believing that this is the only way to survive. If the kidnapper unleashes a little kindness, the hostage will feel like a great gift and gratitude, and even become adoration and admiration.
This weakness of humanity, which succumbs to tyranny, is stockholm syndrome.