Mayville, NY – Lawyers are scheduled to deliver opening statements on Monday at the trial of the man accused of trying to fatally stable the author Salman Rushdie in front of a conference hearing in western New York.
Rushdie, 77, is expected to testify during Hadi Matar’s trial, taking the writer face to face with his attacker who pushes the knife for the first time in more than two years.
Rushdie, who wrote “Midnight’s Children” and “Victory City”, had been about to talk about keeping writers safe in August in August 2022 when killing ran towards him on stage at the Chautauqua Institution amphitheater. Killing Rushdie stabbed more than a dozen times in the neck, stomach, chest, hand and the right eye, leaving it partially blind and with permanent damage in one hand.
The British-American author born in India detailed the attack and his long and painful recovery in a memory, “Knife: Meditations After and tried Murder,” published last year.
Kill, 27, from Fairview, New Jersey, is accused of attempted murder and assault. He declared himself innocent. A jury was selected last week. Kill was in court throughout the three -day process, taking notes and consulting with his lawyers.
Once the testimony is underway, the trial is expected to last a week to 10 days. Videos and photos of the attack day will be shown to jurors, which ended when the spectators ran to kill and held it until the police arrived. The event moderator, Henry Reese, co -founder of City of Asylum in Pittsburgh, was also injured.
Kill told the researchers that he traveled by bus to Chautauqua, about 75 miles (120 kilometers) south of Buffalo. It is believed that he slept in the land of the arts and academic retirement the night before the attack.
The lawyer to kill has not indicated what his defense will be.
In a separate accusation, the federal authorities claim that killing was motivated by the support of a terrorist organization of a Fatwa, or edict, asking for Rushdie’s death. A subsequent trial for federal positions, terrorism that transcends national borders, which provides material support to terrorists and tries to provide material support to a terrorist organization, will be programmed in the United States District Court in Buffalo.
Rushdie spent years hidden after the late Iranian leader, Ayatolá Ruhollah Jomeini, issued Fatwa in 1989 about Rushdie’s novel, “Satanic verses”, which some Muslims consider blasphemous.
In the federal accusation, the authorities claim that Mata believed that the edict was backed by the militant group based in Hezbollah’s Lebanon and backed in a 2006 speech by the then group leader, Hassan Nasrallah.
