Günter Parche

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Günter Parche (born July 4, 1954 in Heringen / Helme , GDR ), a lathe operator , committed an assassination attempt on the tennis player Monica Seles in 1993 .

Life

Parche was an admirer of Steffi Graf , the leading German tennis player at the time . When Graf was defeated in the final by Seles at the German Open in Berlin in 1990 , Parche felt this was a disaster and was suicidal. The hatred he had for Seles solidified when she replaced Graf at the top of the women's tennis world rankings in 1991 .

On April 30, 1993, he attacked Seles during a break in a tennis tournament in Hamburg with a knife and injured her back. The injury was not physically serious, but the psychological consequences made Seles difficult. She was only able to play a tournament more than two years later and never quite regained her former form.

In the trial, Parche was certified as having a "highly abnormal personality structure" and a reduced ability to control. Because of these circumstances, it was after 6 months of detention for aggravated assault to a sentence of two years imprisonment on probation convicted.

Many people, including Seles, found the punishment unsatisfactorily minor. Seles tried in vain to get a higher sentence in an appeal hearing and announced after her return to professional sport that she no longer wanted to play tennis in Germany.

Parche now (as of 2013) lives in a nursing home in Nordhausen, Thuringia, after several strokes .

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  1. ↑ Gisela Friedrichsen: Trials: "Would you like a wife?". Der Spiegel , March 27, 1995, accessed June 17, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Seles rules out Germany on principle , The Independent, February 18, 2003
  3. ↑ Parche lives incapacitated in a home. Die Welt , April 28, 2013, accessed June 21, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Parche, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German assassin on Monica Seles
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Pegs / helmets