1983年1月13日,《明星》周刊曾报道过一个名叫保罗·埃斯林的41岁的锅炉工企图刺杀昂纳克的事件。《明星》周刊驻东德记者迪特尔·布勃写了题为《行刺》的报道,报道说,在这次行刺中,有一个贴身警卫受重伤,刺客最后自杀身亡。东德内政部立即驳斥了这则报道。官方的德通社报道说:“一个喝得酩酊大醉的汽车司机向一位交通警察开枪射击。在警察逮捕这个案犯之前。他用自己的射击武器自杀身 January 13, 1983, ”Star“ magazine has reported that a 41-year-old boiler engineer named Paul Esslin in an attempt to assassinate Honecker. The Star magazine’s East German correspondent Dieter Boeb wrote a report entitled ”Assassination“, which reported that in the assassination, a personal guard was seriously injured and the assassin eventually committed suicide. The East German Interior Ministry immediately dismissed the report. The official Taktori newspaper said: ”A drunk drunk driver shot a traffic policeman and committed suicide with his own firing weapon before the police arrested him