The entire country was mesmerised by the unfolding drama, one of the first major news events broadcast live on Swedish television.
“When Clark Olofsson arrived, he took control of the situation, he was the one who did the talking with the police,” recalled now 73-year-old Bertil Ericsson, a news photographer who covered the crisis, in an interview with AFP.Olsson calmed down as soon as Olofsson arrived. And Kristin Enmark quickly saw in Olofsson a saviour.
“Believe it or not but we’ve had a really nice time here,” she said, adding that they were “telling stories” and “playing checkers”.“You know what I’m afraid of? That the police will do something to us, storm the bank or something.” Rather, the term is used to describe a “defence mechanism that helps the victim” cope with a traumatic situation, he told AFP.
“We represented a real threat to the hostages,” acknowledged police superintendent Eric Ronnegard in a book published years later.
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