Threatened with death since an Iranian “fatwa” in 1989, a year after the “Satanic Verses” were published, Salman Rushdie was stabbed a dozen times on Friday. On Saturday, his agent explained that the author was on a ventilator and “was probably going to lose an eye, the nerves in his arm were severed and he was stabbed in the liver.”
But later that weekend he told the American press that Salman Rushdie had been taken off his ventilator and was doing better, he could even speak.
“Salman Rushdie was taken off his ventilator and he’s talking!” tweeted Michael Hill, president of the Chautauqua institution, where the attack took place.
Prosecutors said Friday’s attack on a cultural center in Chautauqua, where Salman Rushdie was to give a talk, was premeditated. The suspect, who lives in New Jersey, is accused of attempted murder, but has pleaded “not guilty” by the voice of his lawyer and will appear again on August 19.
Source: BFM TV
