Futile Political Gestures: Greece’s Stockholm Syndrome: Futility in a Time of Crisis

Daniel M. Knight

In 1973 convict Jan-Erik Olsson attempted to rob Kreditbanken, a bank in Stockholm, Sweden. During the robbery Olsson took four employees hostage for six days. When Olsson and his accomplice Clark Olofsson were captured and later taken to court, all four hostages refused to testify against them, instead launching a money-raising campaign for their defence.Read more