Günther Tschanun

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Günther Tschanun is a Swiss spree killer. Today, Tschanun lives somewhere in Switzerland under a false name.

[edit] Prehistory and circumstances

The then- 45-years old was chief of the Zurich building inspection dept. This office was at a phase of changes, suffered under a lack of employees and discord between Tschanun and his leading clerks (even the media reported about this situation). The working atmosphere was spoilt and the employees had arguments with their chief, Tschanun. He wasn’t able to stand this pressure longer.

April the 16th 1986 he shot four and hurted one perilously in ten minutes.

[edit] Court order and social echo

First level of jurisdiction: „only“ found guilty for murder (intended killing). The court thought, the victims were guilty, too: They didn’t accept the doer as a chief and criticised him permanently.

This „mobbing“-theory (Then, the word wasn’t even in Swiss linguistic usage) was afterwards overthrown. It was found, that the victims couldn’t be guilty for Tschanun’s personal, familial and professional misery (according to the judges of Lausanne court). Tschanun had been very unqualified for his leading position, overextended, but always denied that in front of himself and his employees.

Second level of jurisdiction: found guilty for murder and attempted murder in 1990, 20 years of jail. In 2000, he was set free (parolee). Peter Vonlanthen, as a mobbing expert and manager of the Zurich Alliance of Commercants ZKV calls the case of Tschanun „Switzerland’s most spectacular mobbing story” When in 2004 deadly shots were fired of by a finances specialist against his two bosses at the „Zürcher Kantonalbank ZKB “ (literally: „Bank of the Canton of Zurich”), the media remembered case Tschanun.