The murderer, who stabbed the writer Salman Rushdie in August 2022, has to proceed with guardianship for 25 years. After the guilty judgment as a result of attempted murder, the punishment was now established.
Hadi Matar, American citizen with Lebanese roots, stabbed the author for hundreds of eyewitnesses. The optical nerve of the victim was separated – it is blind in one eye.
Offer: “It was very clear to me that I die”
Despite the many eyewitnesses and video recordings that the brutal act had recorded, Matar had argued innocently. In the New York process, Rushdie shared his thoughts during the attack: “It was very clear to me that I died,” he said. His attacker had dark, wild eyes. Rushdie, on the other hand, did not want to testify and did not see his victim in court.
The writer had to trust medical care weeks after the attack. The deed was “very painful and dangerous”. “Then I screamed with pain,” said Rushdie. Matar threatens a different procedure – it is about terrorism as a possible motive for crime.
Already in 1989 the then Iranian revolutionary leader Ajatollah Khomeini called for the murder of Rushdies – he found the book of the writer “The Satanian Verse” as blasphemy. Dias could also have been Matar’s motive.
Source: Krone
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