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{{short description|1973 bank robbery}}
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[[File:Former Kreditbanken Norrmalmstorg Stockholm Sweden.jpg|thumb|300px|The former [[Kreditbanken]] building at [[Norrmalmstorg]] 2005.]]▼
| title = Norrmalmstorg robbery
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| image = Former Kreditbanken Norrmalmstorg Stockholm Sweden.jpg
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| ___location = [[Norrmalmstorg]], [[Stockholm]], Sweden
| date = 23–28 August 1973
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| type = Bank robbery, hostage taking
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| injuries = 2
| perps = [[Jan-Erik Olsson]]
| weapons = Various
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The '''Norrmalmstorg robbery''' was a bank robbery and hostage crisis best known as the origin of the term [[Stockholm syndrome]]. It occurred at the [[Norrmalmstorg]] Square in [[Stockholm]], [[Sweden]], in August 1973 and was the first criminal event in Sweden to be covered by live television.<ref name="40-ar-sedan"/> [[Jan-Erik Olsson]] was a convicted criminal who had disappeared while on furlough from prison and then held up a bank and took four hostages. During the ensuing negotiations, Swedish Minister of Justice [[Lennart Geijer]] allowed Olsson's former cellmate and friend [[Clark Olofsson]] to be brought from prison to the bank. Although Olofsson was a long-time career criminal, it is doubtful he was in league with Olsson.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/?id=WgtzDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT38&lpg=PT38&dq=Lennart+Geijer+%26+Norrmalmstorg#v=onepage&q=Lennart%20Geijer%20%26%20Norrmalmstorg&f=false |title = Dramat på Norrmalmstorg: 23 till 28 augusti 1973|isbn = 9789100169350|last1 = Svensson|first1 = Per|date = 2016-11-07}}</ref> Famously, the hostages then bonded with their captors and acted to protect them despite their repeated threats to kill them all. Police finally mounted a tear gas attack five days into the crisis, and the robbers surrendered. Olsson was sentenced to 10 years for the robbery, and Olofsson was ultimately acquitted. The paradoxical actions of the hostages led to a great deal of academic and public interest in the case, including a 2003 Swedish television film, a [[Stockholm (2018 film)|2018 Canadian film]] and a Swedish Netflix television series premiering in 2021.
<ref>https://about.netflix.com/en/news/bill-skarsgard-plays-clark-olofsson-in-new-swedish-netflix-original-directed-by-jonas-akerlund</ref>
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