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Salman Rushdie was very stunned when a masked man started Hit him on a stage stage In western New York that the author did not try to fight again, a prosecutor said Monday while opening statements in an attempt to assassinate a suspect.
Rushdie is expected to testify during the trial of 77 -year -old Rushdie Hadi Matar, For the first time since the attack, bring the two face to face, leaving Rushdie seriously injured and blinded in one eye.
On The day of attack In August 2022, the Booker Prize -winning novelist was sitting on the stage at the Chotua Institution Amphatter, sitting on the stage, which was about to preserve the authors.
District Attorney Jason Schmidt told judges on Monday that the attack was sharp and sudden. He said that Matar tied a ladder on the stage and ran about 30 feet towards Rushdie. When the knife began, Rushdie and fellow speaker Henry Raz were so stunned that they were sitting in the beginning.
“The man, without hesitation, holds his knife … at the speed of force and effectively, the knife is repeatedly drowned in Mr. Rushdie.” , His stomach, his thighs “and a hand that the author raised to protect himself.
“All this happened so fast that the person who came into the attack, Mr. Rushdie, and the person sitting with him, did not register even Mr Raz, who is happening.”
Schmidt said he eventually got up and ran with Matar in pursuit and other people were dominating the attacker. In Pittsburg, the founder of the city asylum, Ries, encountered a gash above his eye.
An employee of the Chotuka Institute testified that he fled the back stage for intervention when he saw a man swinging his arms violently on Rushdie.
“As soon as I ran, I ran down my shoulder, and more and more of it could interfere with me as much as I could,” Jordan Steves, who was a media relationship coordinator.
One of the two witnesses who witnessed Monday, Stevers, identified Matar as an attacker.
27 -year -old Matar of New Jersey’s Fairwave has been accused of trying to kill and attack. He has requested not to be guilty. He calmly called “free Palestine” when he was taken to court on Monday. During the initial statement of the Schmid, Matar looked at the defense table, occasionally taking note, and talking to his lawyers, smiling and laughing.
“This is not a matter of wrongdoing,” said Schmidt.
Indian -born British American author Rushdie described the attack and its long, tragic recovery in detail In a memory“Knife: Meditation after the murder,” was released last year.
Since the novel “The Satanic verses” in 1989, Rushdie has been upset to protect himself and many Muslims have termed it as humiliating and because of this, Iran’s Ayatollah Rohullah Khomeini has killed the fatwa. Demand. Rushdie spent many years in hiding, but after Iran’s announcement, he traveled freely during the last quarter century that he would not enforce the order.
The case is being followed by the 36th anniversary of the fatwa – February 14, 1989.
Matar’s defense faced a difficult start when his public protector, Netheneel, was admitted to the hospital with an unknown illness that prevented him from attending the trial. Judge David Fuley refused the defense request to postpone the preliminary statements and directed the overseas colleague to speak in his place.
Assistant Public Defnder Lynn Sheffer told judges that the prosecution could not prove the crime of Matar, even Videos and photos. He said the matter is not as straight as the prosecution has presented.
Sheffer said, “The elements of the crime are more than really bad – they are more appreciated.”
He acknowledged that during the jury’s election, almost all the judges admitted that they had heard anything about the case.
He said, “It doesn’t matter what you knew to come here, none of this information never told you why and any of the information you received from the District Attorney. She will tell you why. ”
Lawyers said the trial would continue for two weeks.
The first testimony of the trial was the organizer of the Chotuka institution, who said that after moving towards the stage, he was given a knife by an institution.
Deborah Moro Kishmol said he immediately gave him to a law enforcement officer.
Matar told investigators that he traveled Chotuka about 75 75 miles south of Buffalo. He is believed to have fell asleep on the basis of art and educational retreat a night before the attack.
I A separate individual crimeFederal authorities allege that Matar was influenced by the confirmation of a terrorist organization’s fatwa demanding Rushdie’s death. Later trial on federal charges – Terrorism beyond national borders, providing material support to terrorists and trying to provide material support to the terrorist organization – will be scheduled in the US district court in the buffalo.
In the federal crime, officials allege that Matar believes the order is supported by the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and was endorsed in the speech of the group’s then leader Hassan Nasrallah in 2006. It was.
After the 1981 “midnight children” publication, Rushdie is one of the most famous writers in the world, who is the winner of the Booker Prize. His other tasks include the novel “Shame” and “Victoria City”, which he completed shortly before the knife of 2022, and the 2012 memorandum “Joseph Anton”, in which he had his time to hide. Written about
