Writer Salman Rushdie, 75, was stabbed more than a dozen times on Friday August 12, while attending a conference in an amphitheater at a cultural center in Chautauqua, in the northwest of New York State. The attacker, arrested by the police, unfortunately managed to hit him in the neck and abdomen. The author’s agent provided an update on his state of health.
It is near the New York Times that Andrew Wylie, the agent of the author of the book The Satanic Verses, gave very disturbing details about the condition of Salman Rushdie. “The news is not good. Salman is likely to lose an eye, the nerves in his arm have been severed and his liver has been stabbed and damaged“, he said. After his attack, the writer was transported by helicopter to the nearest hospital where he was operated on urgently, the major of the police told the press. New York State, Eugene Staniszewski.Since then, the man whose head had been priced by an Iranian religious group for years against several million dollars, has been placed on an artificial respirator.
Salman Rushdie’s attacker, who is generally under enhanced protection due to long-standing death threats against him, was immediately arrested and taken into custody, with Constable Staniszewski revealing his name was Hadi Matar, 24 years old, from the State of New Jersey.
This odious attack, denounced by several political figures around the world including the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron, was on the other hand welcomed in Iran, a country which launched a fatwa against him because of the satanic verses, a book considered blasphemous against Islam. Iran’s main ultra-conservative daily, Kayhan, congratulated on Saturday the man who stabbed the British writer the day before in the United States. “Kudos to this brave and duty-conscious man who attacked the apostate and vicious Salman Rushdie“, writes the newspaper, whose boss is appointed by the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.