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Olsson was sentenced to 10 years in prison. He received many admiring letters from women who found him attractive. He later got engaged to a woman who was not, despite what some state, one of the former hostages. After his release, he is alleged to have committed further crimes. After having been on
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Olofsson to be brought as a communication link with the police negotiators. The hostage Kristin Enmark said that she felt safe with Olsson and Olofsson but feared that the police might escalate the situation by using violent methods. Olsson and Olofsson barricaded
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and said that he would kill the hostages and backed up his threat by grabbing one of them in a stranglehold. She was heard screaming as he hung up. The next day, the hostage
Kristin Enmark called Palme and said that she was very displeased with his attitude and asked him to let the robbers and the
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were notified shortly after and arrived on the scene. One officer, Ingemar
Warpefeldt, suffered injuries to his hand after Olsson opened fire, while another was ordered to sit in a chair and sing a song. Olsson then took four bank employees hostage: Birgitta Lundblad, Elisabeth Oldgren, Kristin
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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. 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
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Hansson, another escaped prisoner, and someone who specialized in bank robberies. Olsson was a repeat offender who had committed several armed robberies and acts of violence, the first when he was 16.
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Kristin Enmark several times, and their families became friends. He also committed several more crimes.
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the inner main vault in which they kept the hostages. Negotiators agreed that they could have a car to escape but would not allow them to take hostages with them if they tried to leave.
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