After the Moloccan train episode in Holland, many of the hostages campaigned on behalf of the Moloccan cause after release. She went to his trial, tried to testify in his defense, sent him flowers regularly and in general made her affection for him known publicly. She further went on to say that she developed her strong attachment, which she described as love, to the nicer of the two captors because he “gave me my life”. Kirstin Ehnmark, one of the original Stockholm Kreditbank hostages insisted that – although she was hung by the neck and almost killed by one of her captors – her life was at stake because of police action. The four hostages in the Kreditbanken robbery sympathized with their captor (right)Īgain and again, in many languages, these same emotions have been expressed by released hostages. After it was over and we were safe and they were in handcuffs, I walked over to them and kissed each one and said, ‘Thanks for giving me my life back.' I know how foolish that sounds, but that is how I felt.” You know very few people, if any, who hold your life in their hands and then give it back to you. Yet, I was alive because they had let me live. “After it was over and we were safe, I recognized that they (the captors) had put us through hell and had caused my parents and fiancé a great deal of trauma. This prescient discerning article came about from a paper presented by the author Ann Fillmore PhD at the Conference on Terrorism at University Of Aberdeen in fall of 1986.
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