Stockholm syndrome

I was in the military in August 1973, the old king Gustaf VI Adolf was lying on his death bed in Helsingborg. A criminal, Janne Olsson took three bankemployees hostage and locked himself in with them in a bank vault at Norrmalmstorg, Stockholm. After some time, he ordered the Police to bring Clark Olofsson to the vault. Clark is Sweden's most known criminal, he has been in the press since 1964 when he was chased all over Sweden for the murder of a guard. His partner in crime, Gunnar Norgren, shot him when they where discovered.

There were three hostages, two women and one man. The women sympathizised with Janne and Clark and that was called the Stockholm syndrome after that. The men spent a long time in prison after that, Janne was here in the county in an open prison, met a woman, and started a pigfarm in south Sweden, emigrated to Thailand and is now back in Sweden. Clark emigrated to Belgium, changed name, has had a charterboat in the Caribbean an is now locked up again for smuggling heroin.

1977 I was called in for a military exercise at the Arctic Circle for three weeks in February. They always had their meetings when it was the coldest time of the year, -40, in a tent with wet firewood, bad clothes and only reindeer skins and pinebranches on the ground. I had never frozen that much before, i went home during the weekend and took my feather sleepingbag.

I say this because I met the male hostage from the vault there in the tent, he wasn't feeling well.

I met also a professor who was involved in the Nobel Prize in the tent, but more about him later.