At this stage, no direct link has yet been established between the Tehran regime and the 24 -year -old man who repeatedly stabbed the author of the “Satanic Verses”.
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Kayhan, an Iranian ultra -conservative daily, saw him in him a “courageous man and aware of his duty” for having “attacked the apostate and the vicious Salman Rushdie”. At this stage, no direct link was however established between the 24 -year -old man who repeatedly stabbed the author of the Satanic verses and Tehran, hence a fatwa targeting the British novelist was launched there is more than thirty years.
aged 24, the aggressor identified by the police under the name of Hadi Matar is from Fairview in the neighboring state of New Jersey. He was born on American soil of parents emigrants from Lebanon, ten years after the publication of Satanic verses, according to information from the Associated Press agency
As soon as the stabbing attack was perpetrated, on the platform of an amphitheater of a cultural center in Chaattaqua, in the northwest of New York State, the individual was arrested and Placed in detention.
The authorities have however revealed anything about the motivations of the assailant or his operating mode, forcing the American press to rely on conjectures and witnesses of the attack. cited by The New York Times , a person in the forefront of the audience, described a violent scene as well as a “fierce”, “extremely powerful” and “fast” man. “It took five men to keep him away, and he continued to strike,” she testified. The president of the cultural center, Michael Hill, said on Friday that Hadi Matar had a ticket to access the conference.
A backpack belonging to him was seized by the authorities who searched his hotel room in Chaattaqua as well as his place of residence, according to American media.
According to first elements collected by the audiovisual group NBC and police sources cited by The New York Post , a preliminary examination of its accounts on social networks would reveal Sympathies for the Iranian regime and the revolution guards, the ideological army of the regime. Citing an anonymous source, nbc new york also evokes an ideological proximity with Shiite extremism.
Images circulating on social networks, presented as screenshots of its Facebook account taken before its closure by the platform, show photos of emblematic figures of the Iranian diet, including Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeyni, in The origin of the fatwa against Salman Rushdie.
The book by Salman Rushdie, the Satanic verses, has been prohibited in Iran since 1988, because many Muslims consider it blasphemous. The following year, Ayatollah Khomeyni, supreme guide of the Islamic revolution from 1979 to 1989, launched a Fatwa (religious decree) calling for the death of the author.