Hadi Matar said that he had read “a few pages” from Salman Rushdie’s novel and have “esteem for Ayatollah” Khomeyni, at the origin of the Fatwa against the author. He must appear again on Thursday in court.
Le Monde with AFP
The man accused of having stabbed Salman Rushdie said on Wednesday August 17, in an interview with the New York Post , be” amazed “that the author has survived the ‘ Attack, perpetrated a week ago at a conference in New York State.
“When I heard that he had survived, I was amazed,” said Hadi Matar to the American daily, who said he had contacted him in prison. The suspect, arrested immediately after the assault, pleaded not guilty on Saturday attempted murder and must appear again on Thursday in court.
m. Matar, 24, did not say if he had been inspired by the Fatwa launched by Ayatollah Khomeyni in 1989, calling for the death of the author of the Satanic verses. “I have esteem for Ayatollah. I think he is someone remarkable. That’s all I would say about it,” he assured in the New York tabloid, Who writes that Mr. Matar’s lawyers advised him not to talk about this subject.
Hadi Matar told the newspaper to have read “a few pages” of the novel by Salman Rushdie. The 75 -year -old British author, stabbed ten times and evacuated as a helicopter to a hospital, was briefly placed under respirator before his condition improves. “The recovery path started,” said his agent on Sunday. 2>
income “changed” a trip to Lebanon, according to her mother
“I don’t like this person. I don’t think he is a good man,” said the suspect to the New York Post about the intellectual. “I don’t like it, I really don’t like it,” he insisted. “It is someone who attacked Islam,” he added.
Watching the author’s videos on YouTube, he found it “hypocrite”, he continued. He assured that he was not in contact with the Iranian revolution guards and learned of the presence of Mr. Rushdie at a conference of a cultural center in Chaattaqua, in the northwest of New York State, by Twitter .
Originally from the state of New Jersey, he told the American media to have taken the bus to the city of Buffalo, then a VTC to go to Chaattaqua. “I was not doing anything special, I wandered, he detailed. I was just outside all the time.”
While Salman Rushdie went up on the scene of an amphitheater, a man rushed to the platform before stabbing him several times, especially in the neck and abdomen. Hadi Matar had returned, in 2018, “changed” and more religious from a trip to Lebanon, the country of origin of his family, said his mother on Monday at the Daily Mail website .