Stockholm Syndrome refers to the manifestation of empathy amongst hostages towards their captors. But why Stockholm? Well, the term was coined after a hostage situation in a Stockholm bank in 1973. Four people were held hostage by two Swedish criminals hoping to rob the bank, and the stand-off lasted 5 days. Over the course of the incident, some of the captives developed trust for their captors, and feared that the police would escalate events. In the end nobody was killed, and the syndrome became associated with Stockholm.
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Both perpetrators were eventually set free. One lives in Belgium, while the other went on to run a supermarket in Thailand for 15 years with his wife and son, before returning to Sweden.
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