Editing Norrmalmstorg robbery (section)

{{Short description|1973 bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden}}
{{Infobox civilian attack
| title            = Norrmalmstorg robbery
| partof           = 
| image            = Former Kreditbanken Norrmalmstorg Stockholm Sweden.jpg
| caption          = Front view of the former [[Kreditbanken]] building at [[Norrmalmstorg]] in 2005
| location         = [[Norrmalmstorg]], [[Stockholm]], Sweden
| date             = 23–28 August 1973
| time             = 
| timezone         = 
| type             = [[Bank robbery]], [[hostage taking]]
| fatalities       = 
| injuries         = 2
| perps            = [[Jan-Erik Olsson]] and [[Clark Olofsson]]
| weapons          = Various
}}

The '''Norrmalmstorg robbery''' was a bank robbery and hostage crisis that occurred at the [[Norrmalmstorg]] Square in [[Stockholm]], [[Sweden]], in August 1973 and was the first crime in Sweden to be covered by live television.  It is best known as the origin of the term ''[[Stockholm syndrome]]''.<ref name="40-ar-sedan"/>

[[Jan-Erik Olsson]] was a convicted criminal who had disappeared while on [[Prison furlough|furlough from prison]] and then held up the [[Kreditbanken]] bank, taking four hostages in the process. During the negotiations that followed, 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 was deemed unlikely that he was in league with Olsson.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WgtzDQAAQBAJ&q=Lennart+Geijer+%26+Norrmalmstorg&pg=PT38 |title = Dramat på Norrmalmstorg: 23 till 28 augusti 1973|isbn = 978-9100169350|last1 = Svensson|first1 = Per|date = 2016| publisher=Albert Bonniers Förlag }}</ref> In the popular account, the hostages then bonded with their captors and refused to cooperate with police. However, it has also been argued that the hostages were simply distrustful of the police given the latter's willingness to risk the hostages' safety.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Hill|first=Jess|title=See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse|publisher=Black Inc.|year=2019|isbn=978-1760641405|oclc=1246246503|location=Melbourne}}</ref> 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 counter-intuitive actions of the hostages led to a great deal of academic and public interest in the case, including a 2003 Swedish television film titled ''Norrmalmstorg'', a 2018 Canadian film titled ''[[Stockholm (2018 film)|Stockholm]]'' and a 2022 Swedish Netflix television series ''[[Clark (TV series)|Clark]]''.<ref name=netflix>{{Cite web|url=https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/swedish-crime-drama-series-clark-on-netflix-everything-we-know-so-far|title=Swedish Crime-Drama Series 'Clark' on Netflix: Everything We Know So Far|date=14 December 2021|website=Netflix}}</ref>