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Salman Rushdie describes stabbing attack at trial

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Salman Rushdie, the renowned author, testified against Hadi Matar, the 27-year-old accused of attempting to kill him in a knife attack. Rushdie described the attack, stating that Matar was stabbing and slashing at him, causing extreme blood loss and wounds to his liver and bowel. Rushdie also noted that Matar's eyes seemed "ferocious" to him. The prosecution believes that the jury can convict Matar based on his own words and actions.

  1. GB
    Salman Rushdie
    1. I confess, I had sometimes imagined my assassin rising up in some public forum.
    2. I was rolling about on the ground, trying to elude the gladiator's downward thrusts and screaming. It was not the first time I had had such a dream.
    3. I was aware of this person rushing at me from my right-hand side. I was aware of someone in dark clothes … I was struck by his eyes which seemed dark and ferocious to me.
    4. It was a stab wound in my eye, intensely painful, after that I was screaming because of the pain.
    5. In the corner of my right eye — the last thing my right eye would ever see — I saw the man in black running toward me down the right-hand side of the seating area. Black clothes, black face mask. He was coming in hard and low: a squat missile.
    6. He hit me very hard around my jawline and neck. Initially I thought he'd punched me with his fist, but very soon afterwards I saw blood on my clothes.
  2. US
    Jordan Steves
    Chautauqua Institution
    1. I ran as fast as I could, lowered my shoulder and got as much as him with as much as me as I possibly could to try to disrupt what was happening.

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sources

  1. 1.The Times
  2. 2.The Guardian
  3. 3.France 24
  4. 4.Agence France-Presse

perspectives

  1. 1.Islamic Terrorism
  2. 2.Iran Foreign Policy
  3. 3.Freedom of Speech
  4. 4.Assassination Attempt
  5. 5.Islam
  6. 6.Stabbings
  7. 7.Literature

countries

  1. 1.Iran, Islamic Republic ofIR
  2. 2.LebanonLB
  3. 3.Palestine, State ofPS
  4. 4.United StatesUS

organizations

  1. 1.Chautauqua Institution
  2. 2.HezbollahLB
  3. 3.Federal Bureau of InvestigationUS
  4. 4.Metropolitan PoliceGB
  5. 5.Shia
  6. 6.YouTubeUS

persons

  1. 1.Hadi MatarUS
  2. 2.Salman RushdieGB
  3. 3.Henry Reese
  4. 4.Jason SchmidtUS
  5. 5.Lynn Schaffer
  6. 6.Deborah Moore Kushmaul
  7. 7.Jordan StevesUS
  8. 8.Rachel Griffiths
  9. 9.Agatha Christie
  10. 10.Andrew Wylie
  11. 11.Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
  12. 12.David Foley

technicals

  1. 1.Satanic Verses
  2. 2.Covid-19 Pandemic
  3. 3.Islam
  4. 4.Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder