Mayville, NY – 2022. Salman Rushdie should deliver a lecture in front of the living audience in Western New York when a man ran towards him and sunk a knife in the author’s hand as he picked him up in self-defense.
“After that there are many blows, on my neck, to my chest, in the eyes, everywhere,” Rushdie withdrew in memoir followed. “I feel my legs are given, and I fall.”
In the coming weeks, Rushdie is expected to return to the same New York district to recount experience as one of the first witnesses in the man accused. Have a knife That day, Hadi Matar.
The selection of the jury is planned for the start of Tuesday. Matar, 27. Failview, New Jersey, he pleaded not guilty of an accusation of attempted murder and attack.
Under different circumstances, Rushdie’s Book, which describes in detail his account and his recovery, can offer important evidence in 12. August 2022, an attack left by a 77-year-old blind eye and his hand permanently damaged.
But “This is not an event in a color color that appears in a mute alley,” Chautauqua Jason Schmidt District Skirt after the Trial Chamits said. “It’s something that was recorded, there were witnesses to live thousands of people.”
The jurors will be shown a video attack, as well as photographs and documentation, Schmidt said. Estimated 15 witnesses are expected to take over the position during the trial, which is predicted to last for several weeks, he said.
Matar’s lawyer, Nathaniel Baron, described in detail how he plans to defend his client against charges. He clapped on critics who examine why Matar did not take on guilt in the light of the Prosecution case.
“It’s not about what it’s about. It’s a penetration process,” Baron said. “It’s about receiving a fair trial … if someone wants to do those rights, they have the right to do so.”
In a special indictment, the Federal government claim that Matar was motivated by the approval of the Terrorist Organization of Fatwa or EDICT, referring to Rushdie’s death. Special trial in federal charges – Terrorism exceeds national borders, providing material support to terrorists and tries to ensure material support to the terrorist organization – will be scheduled in the US District Court in Buffalo.
Rushdie spent years in hiding after the late Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued by Fatwa 1989. Years After the announcement of the novel “Satanist verses”, which some Muslims consider blasphemous. In the Federal Indictment, they claim that the Edict was supported by the EDIT that the Militant Group based on Lebanon and supported the Group Speech for 2006. year Tadish Group leaders, Hassan Nasrallah.
But the jurors in the case of Chautauqua County are unlikely to hear about Fatw, according to Schmidt. He said that they did not anticipate the need to show the Matar’s possible motive to be condemned at state charges.
“From my point of view, this is a localized event. It’s an event for a sting. It’s pretty simple,” Schmidt said. “I really don’t see the need to get into the motive of evidence, whether it is applicable or not applicable and what it consists. I would like to avoid all that.”
Baron, defense counsel, said that jurors were to be shown for all prejudices against people in the human east of Eastern origin, given the discussions of Fatwo during the previous court proceedings.
“They talked about the reason why this alleged crime allegedly had this book that involve Muslims, all that. So it’s kind of like the barns of the barn,” he said.
Matar was born in the US, but he has a dual nationality in Lebanon, where his parents were born. Rushdie is a native of India who lived in London for years. He became American citizen in 2016. years.
Matar was held without bail from his arrest after declared the viewers rushed into the amphitheater phase. The moderator of the event, Henry Reese, co-founder of the city asylum in Pittsburgh is also wounded.
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