Stockholm syndrome:The Mystery of Loving an Abuser - Part 1

The strangest thing about this was the fact that the hostages seemed to trust the bank robbers more than they did the police. They thought the hostage-takers were "nice people" and they didn't believe for a second that they would kill any of them. In fact, they communicated in a phone call to the prime minister at the time that they were scared about the ineptitude of the police and the possibility that this might get them killed.