The novelist Salman Rushdie He described Tuesday the moment when the attacker armed with a knife broke into the stage and tried to kill him in a frantic attack that left him blind from one eye.
The author of ‘The satanic verses’ explained to the jury members his alleged aggressor, the American-Libanés Hadi kill23 years old, how “he was stabbing and cutting” against him.
“I was aware that this person was pounced on me from my right side,” he said, describing the moment on the stage of an artistic event in the state of New York in August 2022. “I only saw him at the last moment,” story.
“I was very impressed by his eyes, they were dark and they seemed very fierce,” Rushdie said about the attacker, who wore a mask for the covid.
«It was stab in my eye, intensely painful. After that, he was shouting for pain, ”Rushdie added, noting that he was in a “Blood lake”.
The legal team to kill has tried to prevent witnesses from characterizing Rushdie as a victim of persecution after the fatua issued in 1989 by Iran, who asked for his murder for the alleged blasphemy in ‘The satanic verses’.
Killing is accused of Stop Rushdie about 10 times With a six -inch sheet. He shouted “free Palestine!” To the Court and did not react when Rushdie began his testimony.
Rushdie wore a dark suit and wore his distinctive glasses, with a polarized lens to cover his affected eye, which at any given time took off to show the state that left him the murder attempt.
The District Prosecutor, Jason SchmidtHe reported how Rushdie had just taken a seat at the amphitheater in front of about 1,000 people at the time of the attack. “(Killing) sank the knife in Mr. Rushdie again and again and again, with strength, efficacy and speed,” said Schmidt.
According to the FBI, the militant organization Libanese Hizbolá, backed by Iran, supported the Fatua, and kill faces a separate judicial process in a federal court for terrorism positions.
Kill previously declared the media that he had only read two pages of Rushdie’s novel, but believed that the author had “Attacted to Islam.”
Rushdie, 77 and British-American nationality, suffered multiple stabs before attendees managed to submit the attacker. The employee of the enclosure, Jordan Steveshe told Monday how he threw himself against the aggressor “with my right shoulder, with all the force I could gather” to help stop him.
When the attacker was asked to identify, he pointed to kill, who was sitting a few meters in the ornate court of the court.
Your colleague Deborah Moore Kushmaul He said he picked up the knife to kill had left and handed it to the police.
«I could see blood, I saw the attendees piled up on him. Our audience, mostly older people, was shouting, ”he said. Schmidt said that kill was “Dangerously close” to kill Rushdie And he explained that he stabbed him in the right eye with such force that he sectioned the optic nerve.
Rushdie’s trachea was also partially lacerated, and his thin liver and intestine were perforated. “Rushdie’s blood pressure was very low, he lost a lot of blood,” said the prosecutor.
Lynn Schafferone of the lawyers to kill, said Mondays that prosecutors would try to present the case as “open and closed.”
“But they pay attention to the assumptions made by police witnesses,” he warned. “They suppose things about the Lord to kill that affect the way they investigate.”
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