In 1973, during a standoff with police that shocked and captivated Sweden, a surprising bond formed between bank robber Jan-Erik Olsson and his hostages.
So, with sharpshooters swarming around the building, Olsson retreated inside the bank vault with his hostages, leaving the door only slightly ajar, and waited for his demands to be met. Enmark’s hands and feet had been tied, along with those of her colleagues: bank teller Elisabeth Oldgren, 21, and Birgitta Lundblad, 31 and the only hostage who was married with children.
Nervous and short-tempered, Olsson shouted orders that day and threatened to kill people who resisted. He already had shot one police officer in the hand. But the great prison escapee Olofsson’s arrival in the afternoon brought those inside some welcome calm.“When I came, they were terrified,” Olofsson said in 2019 on the podcast “Criminal.” “After five minutes, they were cool. I said, ‘Hey, take it easy, we’re going to fix this.
Säfstrom waited for a signal to get in position, but Olsson didn’t follow through. “I still don’t know why the signal never came,” Säfstrom told the New Yorker. “All that comes back to me is how kind IMeanwhile, onlookers crowded Norrmalmstorg square outside, and news crews covered the events relentlessly, interviewing the hostages and their captors by phone all day Friday. The Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet dubbed it “the pornography of violence.”Around 5 p.m.
Olsson’s disguise, it turned out, had succeeded: The police had no idea who he was, and they ended up misidentifying him as another prison escapee Olofsson had known, Kaj Hansson. They even brought in Hansson’s teenage brother, Dan, to reason with the robber, only to be met with gunfire. Later, the police had Dan call the vault phone, according to King.Dan hung up after talking to Olsson and called the policemen “idiots.” “You have the wrong guy!” he yelled.
As she fell asleep that night, Enmark could hear everyone’s breathing and tell when they were in sync. She even tried to change her breathing to match. “That was our world,” she said. “We were in the vault in order to breathe, to survive. Whoever threatened that world was our enemy.”A crew had started working to punch through the vault from above — ostensibly, the police told Olsson, to create a hole wide enough for him to surrender his weapon.
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