Hadi Matar, a 24-year-old man born in the United States, was taken into custody. His victim is still hospitalized in serious condition.
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Arrested immediately after stabbing Salman Rushdie, Hadi Matar, a 24-year-old young man born in the United States, was, on Saturday August 13, “formally prosecuted for attempted murder and assault”, local police said. The man was taken into custody at the Chautauqua County Jail in New York State where the incident occurred.
>> What we know about the stabbing of writer Salman Rushdie in the United States.
The attack took place around 11 a.m. on Friday on the stage of the amphitheater of the Chautauqua cultural center, when a man “rushed to the stage” and has “stabbed” the writer, several times “in the neck” “in the abdomen”according to local police.
“The news is not good”had declared Friday evening to the New York Times Mr. Rushdie’s agent, Andrew Wylie. “Salman will probably lose an eye; the nerves in his arm were severed and he was stabbed in the liver”had detailed Mr. Wylie, specifying that his client had been placed on an artificial respirator.
Salman Rushdie, born in 1947 in India into a family of non-practicing Muslim intellectuals, set part of the Islamic world ablaze with the publication of satanic versesleading Iranian Ayatollah Rouhollah Khomeini to issue a fatwa in 1989 calling for his assassination.