Novelist Salman Rushdie showed a jury closing his eyes on Tuesday when he testified against the man who tried to assassinate him during a conversation in Rural New York in 2022.
Hadi Matar, 26, has requested not to be guilty of charges of murder and second degree attack by Chotuka County District Attorney.
Rushdie went to court dressed in a black suit, white shirt and brown tie.
The lens of his spectators was darkened, masked by the eye, which his attacker’s knife pierced into the optic nerve.
On August 12, 2022, instead of his attack, a few miles north of the Chotua Institution, Rushdie testified in the courtroom in the Mai Will, Rushdie testified, “I knew the person that he would run on me from my right. “
“He hit me very hard,” Rushdie said. “Initially, I thought he had hit me. I thought he was hitting me with his fist. But later I saw that a large amount of blood was flowing on my clothes, and by that time he was hitting me again and again. The knife is stabbing, throwing. “
Matar, dressed in a light blue shirt, sat near his defense lawyers. In his memoir about the attack, Rushdie imagined to be questioned about the attack and wrote that he was waiting for him to face it in the courtroom.
Rushdie, who had spent most of the 1990s hiding in Britain after receiving threats to kill his 1988 novel “The Devilian verses”, in his head, neck, torso and left hand, his right The eye was blind and damaged. His liver and intestines. The traumatic doctors who treated him after being taken to a hospital in Pennsylvania, he said that he had lost so much blood that he had come close to death.
Rushdie said that the knife in his right eye is the most dangerous.
“You can see what it is,” Rushdie said, removing his spectacles and turning to the jury.
“There is no vision in the eyes at all.”
The attack is accused of injuring Henry Ries, a co -founder of the Asylum city of Pittsburg, a non -profit group that supports the authors of exile, who were talking to Rushdie this morning. Reese also has to testify.
Rushdie told his attacker with a black face mask dressed in a very black dress.
Rushdie testified, “I was very impressed with his eyes that was in the dark and I felt great.”
Matar’s defense lawyer objected to this feature, and Judge David Fuley influenced the response very much.
“Well, not great,” Rushdie said.
Chotuka District Attorney Jason Schmidt re -presented his question and asked the author how he had come to conclude about the fruits of his attacker.
Rushdie replied, “He hit me several times, another half a dozen times.”
“At one time, I thought I was dying. It was my immediate thinking.
