The testimony is ready to continue on Tuesday In trial One of the men has been charged with a knife attack on a western New York stage.
In the 27 -year -old Hadi Matar case on Monday, Georis heard from the Arts Institution staff where Rushdie was ready to make a speech in August 2022, when officials say Fairwave, a New Jersey man attacked the stage on the author. What and more with a knife. A dozen times
It is expected that Rushdie himself will testify during the trial.
Ever since the spectators had been dominating him after the attack, Matar has been in custody. He has not been guilty of trying to kill and attack.
The 77 -year -old author was blinded in an eye and spent months to recover, he said in detail In a memory Last year was released. A speaker who was to attend with Rushdie was also injured.
The trial is likely to continue for two weeks. Jorus is expected to show videos and photos from the day of the attack.
According to District Attorney Jason Schmidt, he is unlikely that he should hear about the fatwa issued by the late Iranian leader Ayatollah Rohullah Khomeini.
Rushdie, the author of “midnight children” and “Victoria City”, spent years in hiding after Khomeini’s announcement Fatwa in 1989 After the publishing of the novel “The Devilian verses”, which some Muslims consider to be derogatory
Schmidt has said that it would be unnecessary to discuss the purpose of the Mutar in the state trial, because the attack was seen directly by the audience who was there to listen to Rushdie’s speech.
“This is not a matter of wrongdoing,” Schmidt said during his preliminary statement on Monday. ” “Mr Matar is the person who attacked Mr Rushdie without any provocation.
However, a public guard representing the Mutar told the judges that the matter was not as straight as the prosecutors made it.
Lynn Sheffer said, “The elements of crime are more than something really bad ‘ – they have been explained more.” “
In a separate crime, federal authorities have alleged that the Mutar was driven to work through the confirmation of the terrorist organization’s 2006 fatwa. The subsequent trial on the allegations of federal terrorism will be held in the US district court in the buffalo.
