In 2022, Salman Rushdie was about to give a lecture before a live audience in Western New York when a person ran towards him and immersed a knife in the writer’s hand because he raised it in self -defense.
“After that there are bangs of the body, up to my neck, up to my chest, my eye, everywhere,” Rushdie recalled in a memoir. “I think my feet give way, and I fall.”
In the coming weeks, Rushdie is expected to return to the same New York County, which is to remember experience as one of the first witnesses in the person’s test.
The jury was selected on Tuesday. 27 -year -old peas of New Jersey Fairview have requested not to be guilty of allegations of murder and attempt to attack.
Under various circumstances, the book of Rushdie, which gives details of his account and its recovery of that day, can present important evidence in August 12, 2022, the attacker left the 77 -year -old blind in his right eye and his The hand was permanently damaged.
“This is not a back-ale phenomenon that becomes untrue in a dark street,” said after a pretense hearing by the District Attorney Jason Schmit of the Chatauka County. “This is something that was recorded, it was seen live by thousands.”
The gamblers will be shown the video of the attack, as well as photo and documentation, and the estimated 15 witnesses are expected to take a stand. Judge David Fole said that once the jury selection is completed, the trial Wood takes up to one and a half weeks.
The Nathanial Baron, a pea lawyer, has not explained how he is planning to protect his customer and clap on critics, who questions why Matas did not take a petition.
“It’s not what it is about.” This is about the appropriate process, “Bairon said.”
In a separate prosecution, the federal officials allege that the peas were inspired by the support of a terrorist organization’s fatwa, or the Edict was calling for Rushdi’s death. A separate test on federal allegations – crossing terrorism national borders, providing physical assistance to terrorists and trying to provide material assistance to a terrorist organization – will be determined in the US District Court in Buffalo.
Foli on Tuesday asked the potential gamblers whether they could consider a case involving someone from the Muslim dynasty or with a strong religious lie. Everyone indicated that they could.
But it was proving difficult to find the gamblers that have already been made in opinion.
On Tuesday, about 27 men and women legs said that they knew what happened to Rushdi, Ether from the news reports or acquaintances, and many said that they had formed ideas that they had formed who hear whatever they listen to in the test. , It is unlikely to be based on that.
The Attorney of the peas last year, unsuccessful to transfer the trial from the Chautaukwa County, cited the pre -publicity and potential prejudice against the people of the middle dynasty among most white inhabitants of Small Rural County.
Rushdie spent years in hiding after late Irani leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa after the publication of the novel in 1989 Satanic versesWhatever Muslims consider blasphemy. In the federal prosecution, officials allege that Mater believes that the Edict was supported by Hizbullah, a Lebanon -based terrorist group and was supported in a 2006 speech by the then leader of the group, Hasan Nasrallah.
But in the Chautaukwa County case, the gamblers are unlikely to hear about the fatwa according to the shamite. Hey said that he does not need to show the potential motifs of peas to punish the state allegations.
“From my point of view, this is a local phenomenon. This is a stabbing phenomenon. This is quite straightforward, ”Schmit said. “I don’t really need to go into Motif evidence, whether it is applicable or not and what is involved in it. I like to avoid all that.
Defense Attorney, Baron, said that the gamblers should be investigated for bias, yet in view of the discussion of fatwa during the proposal of the previous court.
“They have talked about the reason why this alleged crime was committed because all this was included in this book. So, it is like the door of the barn, “Hey said.
Peas were born in the US, but have dual citizenship in Lebanon, where his parents were born. Rushdie is a native of India who lives in London for years. He became an American citizen in 2016.
Matar has been a hero without bail since his arrest, who was under the control of the figure of figs. Moderators of the event, Henry Reese, Sharan city co-founder in Pittsburgh, ie, were injured.