“Great Pain and Shock”: Salman Rushdie is witnessing the trial of the suspected striker

Salman Rushdie described the graphic details on Tuesday the feverish moments in 2022 when a masked man rushed on the stage in West New York and reduced it again and repeatedly with a knife, leaving him terrible injuries and is afraid to die.

Rushdie took the position on the second day of the testimony in the trial of Hadi Mattar, 27, who admitted that he was not guilty of the attempt to kill and attack in the attack that hit another man. This was the first time since August 12, 2022, as the 77 -year -old found himself in the same room with the man accused of trying to kill him.

Rushdie remembered a feeling of “a feeling of pain and shock, and to realize the fact that there is a huge amount of blood in which I was lying” after the attack at the Chauteauqua Foundation-a non-profit technical center about 120 km south of Bouvalo, New York, where he was supposed to give a lecture in That day.

“It happened to me that I was dying. This was my prevailing idea,” he said, adding that the people who were likely to the attacker were more likely to save his life.

While the attack was narrated, his wife, Rachel Elisa Griffiths, shouted from her seat in the second row of the court hall.

“I saw him only at the last minute.”

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Rushdie said he initially believed that his striker, who was carrying his knife, was hitting him with a fist.

“But I saw a large amount of blood flowing on my clothes,” he said. “He was hitting me again and again. He hit and floundered.”

Rushdie said that he had more times in his chest and trunk and stabbed in his chest while he was struggling to escape. He was blind in one eye in the attack.

“I was seriously injured. I can no longer stand anymore. I have fallen,” he said.

Weeks of healing

Rushdie spent 17 days at Pennsylvania Hospital and more than three weeks at a rehabilitation center in New York City, where he had to re -learn basic skills such as pressure on the toothpaste from a tube. He detailed months of recovery in memoirs issued last year.

Although he said he was “heavily recovered”, he still does not feel “100 percent.”

“I am not as active as I used. I am not as strong as my body as I used to,” he said.

Mattar, who was sitting about six meters from Rushdie in the courtroom, often looked at his testimony.

The interrogation begins

Lyn Shafir, a general defender who represents Mattar, began interrogating her by the Booker Prize author’s request for his career. The interrogation was brief, low, and a friendly moment. Rushdie asked if he would be surprised Bridge Jones notesWhere he was making a veil, her favorite movie was.

“I am surprised,” Rushdie said, joking that he was “the most important of his work.”

The only hint of a potential defense strategy was the question about whether the shock could affect memories.

Rushdie admitted that he had a wrong memory, that he thought he stood when he saw the attacker approaching, but this was not true.

Then he challenged him to remember the number of times he was injured.

“I was not considered at that time. I was busy,” Rushdie replied. “But then, I was able to see her on my body. I didn’t need anyone to tell me.”

None of the Rashidi asked to identify his striker in the court, and he refused to conduct an interview with him while he was leaving the court about an hour after the certificate.

Later on Tuesday, the honorable deputy province of Chutawukua Jason Pachner Mattar identified the striker who helped in detaining the scenes after the attack. He witnessed that Matpar was calm and cooperative, while his clothes were involved and it seemed that there was blood on his hands.

Security was more strict before Rushdie’s appearance, as many law enforcement vehicles were parked outside the court.

The trial is expected to last for up to two weeks.

The jurors are unlikely to hear Fatwa issued by the late Iranian leader Ayatollah Rohleh Khomeini calling for the death of Rushdie, according to provincial lawyer Jason Schmidt. Rushdie, author of the book ” Midnight children and Victory CityHe spent years in hiding after Khomeini announced FATWA in 1989 after publishing his novel Satanic versesAnd that was inspired by the life of the Prophet Muhammad and which some Muslims consider blasphemy.

“It is not a state of wrong identity”

Schmidt said that the discussion of Mattar’s motive will not be necessary in the state’s trial, given that the attack was witnessed by a direct audience that was expected to hear Rushdie a lecture on preserving the safety of the book.

“This is not a state of wrong identity,” Schmidt said during the opening data on Monday. “Mr. Mattar is the person who attacked Mr. Rushdie without provocation.”

Matar is a dual Lebanese American citizen. He was born in the United States for fathers who immigrated from Yaron in southern Lebanon, which is controlled by Hezbollah near the Israeli border, according to the village mayor. Mattar’s mother said she believed that her son was extremist in 2018 when he spent time with his father in Yaron.

In an interview with the prison with The New York Post Days after stabbing, MATAR will not say whether to follow Fatwa, referring to Rushdie as “a person who attacked Islam.”

In a separate indictment, the federal authorities claim that Mattar was driven by the behavior of a terrorist organization for the year 2006 to turn. A subsequent trial will be scheduled for federal terrorism charges in the US District Court in Boufalo.