In the trial of a person accused of attacking Salman Rushdie, the prosecutors on Monday told the gamblers that the author came to “dancing to dangerously” in a frenzied attack that blinded him in one eye.
A 27-year-old Lebanese-American, Hadi Matar, who called “Free Palestine”, because he was taken to court, but accused of attempting to murder and attack on August 12, 2022 in an art program in the west of the state of New York State. Has gone. ,
The pea is accused of stabbing Rushdie about 10 times with a knife, left him in a serious position and without his right eye vision.
Prosecutor District Attorney Jason Schmit explained how Rushdie, who has faced death threats since the release of his 1988 novel “The Satanic Verses”, took his seat in the amphitheater in front of around 1,000 people.
“The manufacture of a young medium man wearing a dark colored facemask … appeared from behind the theater,” said Schmit. “Once on the stage he fasts fast in a full run.”
“(Peas) forcefully and efficiently and with speed, the knife was repeatedly immersed in Mr. Rushadi … swinging, sliding in Mr. Rushdi’s head, neck, stomach, upper thigh.”
Schmid said that Rushdie raised his hands to defend himself but remained sitting after many blasts landed.
“The Satanic Shloka” was declared blasphemy by the supreme leader of Iran, and a natural American, Indian -born writer in New York has long been faced with security risks.
– ‘Attacking Islam’? ,
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or religious editing in 1989, called Muslims anywhere in the world to kill Rushdi anywhere in the world.
Hizbullah supported Fatwa, the FBI has said, and Matas have faced a separate prosecution in the federal court on allegations of terrorism.
Matas, who wore a blue shirt and often honored his five-fifth legal team in the ornate court on Monday, first told The New York Post that he had read only two pages of Rashdi’s novel, but believed it. That the author “attacked Islam.”
Rushdie, now 77, was facing many knife wounds before the attendees and the guards could subdue the attacker, later identified by the police as a matar.
The pea came “dangerous closer” to kill Rushdie, claiming that he stabbed the writer through the right eye at such a speed “separated the optical nerve.”
Rushdie’s Adam’s apple was also partially brought, and his liver and small bowel entered.
The prosecutor said, “His blood pressure was low. He lost so much blood.”
– Life under fatwa –
One of the pea lawyers, Lin Shefer said that an initial argument stated in super bowl contexts and cough matches that prosecutors would try to present the case as “straight and closed”.
“Pay attention to the beliefs that make the police witnesses … How is the color examined, the way they investigate the matter?” He said. “They talk about Mr. Matar that affects the way they examine.”
A large media appearance has been gathered in the city of Meville near the Canadian border to follow the test.
The defense team of the peas demanded a delay in the case as his primary lawyer has been admitted to the hospital, but Judge David Foley denied this.
The pea’s side had earlier demanded Meville to prosecute, where Rushdie was attacked, it was impossible to argue a proper testing from 12 gamblers and arguing with four alternatives recruited from the local area.
Rushdie lived in solitude in London till the first decade after the fight was released, but for the last 20 years – the attack – he had lived a relatively normal life in New York.
He was not in court on Monday.
Last year, he published a memoir called “Knife” in which he narrated the experience of near-death.
“Why don’t I fight? Why I didn’t walk? I just stood there,” Rushdie wrote.
Iran has denied any link of the attacker – but said that only Rushdie was convicted for the incident.
“I am proud of the work I have done, and it includes’ satanic verses.” If someone is looking for regrets, then you can stop reading here, “Rushdie wrote.
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