Brödhörn Terror Incident

Brödhörn Terror Incident
Police ontop of Brödhörn shop across the street from the terrorists.
Date 1972–1972 Location Båtvik, Blostland Result Police Victory
Belligerents
Järnflotten Terrorists: Järnflotten	Police: Brödhörn Police
Commanders and leaders
Sebastian Malmström †	Cheif Forslund
Strength
8	23
Casualties and losses
5 Killed	None Killed or Wounded

The Brödhörn Terror Incident was a bank robbery, terrorist attack, and hostage crisis best known as the watershed event for the 1970s Political Crisis which rocked the then Folkets Landpartiet government. It occurred at Brödhörn in Båtvik, Blostland, in September 1972 and was the first criminal event in Blostland to be covered by live television. Sebastian Malmström was a convicted criminal who had been active in the far right political world; he had managed to create his own functionalist terrorist cell which he planned to fund by by robbing a bank and taking hostages. During the robbery 5 hostages would be taken and almost 5 million dollars would be stolen, police response would be quicker than anticipated by the terrorists who would barracked themselves inside the building as a response. The negotiations that followed, Blostlandic Minister of Justice Bob Olsson allowed the terrorists multiple occasions to spread their propaganda on live news. Though the Minister was promised that they would surrender afterwards the terrorists went back on their agreement further deteriorating the situation. Famously, the terrorists messages would attempt embolden the far right enough to launch spontaneous uprisings across the country. This did little to help the terrorists though far right rally’s and riots would follow not long after. Police finally mounted a tear-gas attack six days into the crisis, killing 5 of the heavily armed terrorists including Malmström himself. The event would come as a dark reminder of the far right coming directly after the government's decision to rehabilitate the monarchy for their part in the Great War.

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