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Salman Rushdie appeared before the court on Tuesday to testify in the trial of the man accused of trying to kill him on the stage in an interview in West New York in 2022. “It happened to me that I was dying. Rashidi said:” This was my prevailing thinking. ” Court newsWhile remembering the stabbing attack His blindness in one eye. per CNNRushdie described to realize that someone was “rushing” to his right. He said: “He hit me very hard.” “Initially, I thought he had made me. I thought he was hitting me with his fist. But after a very short period, I really saw a very large amount of blood flowing on my clothes, and at that time he was hitting me frequently. Stabbing, and lowering.”
At some point, Rushdie took off his glasses to show the jury “the remainder of his eye, indicating that” no vision [in it] Absolutely. According to GuardianRushdie also recalled struggling to move away, hold a hand of self -defense, and “stab through it.” During the interrogation, he agreed that the wrong memories could exist, noting that he initially believed that he stood to confront the attacker-although he was already sitting. Rushdie witnessed about an hour before the court left.
The 26 -year -old defendant Hadi Mattar acknowledged that he was not guilty in the attempt to kill a second degree and the second -degree attack in the attack that hit another person. In Rushdie Notes about the accidentfor Skin: Reflections after trying to kill, He wrote that he was looking to see his attacker in court. Rushdie was not asked to get to know the attacker while he was. In his testimony, he said that he not only saw the man who stabbed him with a 10 -inch blade “at the last minute,” noting that the attacker was wearing dark clothes and had “dark and very fierce eyes.” Mattar was sitting about 20 feet from Rushdie, and according to what was often looked down while speaking.
Rushdie faced contracts from the threats of murder for his controversial writing, as the late Iranian leader, Ayatollah Rohleh Khomeini, called for the author’s death in a Fatwa case after publishing his novel in 1988 Satanic verses. Provincial lawyer Jason Schmidt stated that the discussion of the motivation will not be necessary in the trial of Mattar State, which is expected to continue for up to two weeks. Mattar is scheduled to face a separate trial on federal terrorism charges, with an indictment claiming that his motives were linked to the support of a terrorist organization for Fatwa Khomeini.
