Salman Rushdie stabbed on stage, in danger of losing an eye
Writer Salman Rushdie, 75, was assaulted today in New York while he was giving a conference. His assailant fell to the stage immediately after the assault and was stopped by the police.
NYPD announced that Rushdie was wounded in the neck from a edged weapon. The writer was flown to a local hospital by helicopter after being stabbed in the neck as he prepared to speak at a public event in the town of Chautauqua, New York. It would risk lose an eye and has the nerves in his arm severed according to what he has made known Andrew Wylie, Rushdie’s spokesperson. “The news is not good – continued the writer’s agent -. Salman is attached to a respirator, at this moment he is unable to speak”. According to the BBC, the writer was hit multiple times in the neck and chest. In the attack, the moderator was also injured but the first information indicates that they are not serious.
Salman Rushdie is author of ‘I satanic verses’The book that came banned in Iran in 1988 because it was considered blasphemous. L’ayatollah Khomeinithe year after the book was published, he launched a fatwa against the Indian writer offering one reward of 3 million dollars to those who killed him. Supreme guide Ali Khamenei has the fatwa in 2017, and in 2019 via Twitter. The writer managed to get up on his own from the stage at the Chautauqua Institution in New York State after being assaulted, according to the online Independent. A photo taken immediately after the assault shows a security officer with his hands on Rushdie’s chest while another holds his legs raised in the air.
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