Clark Olofsson, one of the most famous criminals in the history of Sweden and one of the protagonists of the robbery that gave name to the known as, has died at 78 in a hospital in the country in the Scandinavian country, his family confirmed on Thursday to Swedish media.
Olofsson spent half a life in prison for numerous crimes that include from attempted murder and robbery to abuse and crimes with narcotics, but the best known of all was the so -called “Norrmalmstorg drama”, a robbery of a bank in which hostages filed a complicity relationship with their kidnappers that gave name to the popular psychological term.
Jan Erik “Janne” Olsson entered on August 23, 1973 hooded, armed with a submachine gun and explosives at the Kreditbank branch in the central Norrmalmstorg square in the Swedish capital.
“Throw to the ground, now the party begins,” he said in English before shooting at the ceiling, taking three employees hostage and raised conditions to the police: three million Swedish crowns, a car and free track to leave Sweden.
Olsson also demanded that he be transferred from his cell to Banco Clark Olofsson, then one of the best known criminals in the country and with whom he had coincided in jail.
The authorities accepted part of their demands and took Olofsson to the bank, where another employee was hidden that went on to integrate the hostage group into the security vault.
Police and health serve one of the victims of theft in Norrmalmsorg on August 23, 1973.
There they remained six days, in which kidnappers and hostages played the cards and filed strong affective ties: they arrived for example to accept a proposal, rejected by the authorities, to escape with the thieves by car and ensure that they trusted them “blindly.”
When the police released those kidnapped in an operation in which there were no injuries, the hostages refused to leave before their captors, for fear that they were punished and said goodbye to them with hugs.
The “Norrmalmstorg drama” has originated several books and a film and Netflix premiered three years ago a series inspired by Olofsson’s life, which served sentences in several countries, came to renounce his Swedish nationality to recover it later later and was free for seven years.
