The power of the crowd

Dimitri Buko
5 min readMar 30, 2021

The masked guy is sitting alone in the office looking out of the window through the shades. He is the one that they call “February”. Except from his clothing and the gun, he doesn’t look like a criminal. He is wimpy and moves around like a shy biology teacher. But still, together with 10 other people, they are keeping 54 hostages for three weeks.

The office door opens and the one that they call “April” prompts a hostage to get in with a polite push, he then leaves the room closing the door behind him. The hostage looks tired but not abused. He is silent and uncomfortable.

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