Writer Salman Rushdie is taken to hospital after being attacked with a knife. AFP photo
Writer Salman Rushdie, 75, stabbed just over 24 hours ago, his fan has been removed and he is now able to speak again. This was announced by the BBC.
Rushdie was attached to a convention in upstate New York and he was in serious condition.
The news was confirmed by Rushdie’s agent, Andrew Wylie, of whom he spoke on Saturday liver damagein the nerves of an arm and above all the risk that the writer may lose an eye.
Meanwhile, the controversy begins to grow over the lack of protection of a man who has lived for more than 30 years under the threat of Islamic extremism.
Hadi Matar, 24, arrested after the attack. AP photo
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The White House condemned the “horrific attack” on US soil and said he was praying for Rushdie. There is currently no official information on the motive for the attack, but the attacker, a 24-year-old born in New Jersey to Lebanese parents, appears to be close to Shiite extremism and Iranian Pasdaran.
Saturday, the agent of the author of the “Satanic verses ” it had provided a daunting picture. “The news is not good. Salman is on a fan, he can’t talk right now,” Wyle even said. he added that “probably” he would lose an eye and detailed that “the nerves in his arm were cut and his liver was injured and damaged.”
According to the police reconstruction, the very people present in the hall of the Chautauqua Institute, where Rushdie was about to speak, who blocked Hadi Matar before the agents arrived.
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