The testimony will continue on Tuesday In the trial of the man accused of stabbing the famous author Salman Rushdie in an attack of frantic knife in a western stage in New York.
The jury members in the 27 -year -old Hadi Matar trial listened to the employees of the Arts Institution on Monday, where Rushdie had to give a speech in August 2022, when the authorities say that FairView’s man, New Jersey He attacked the author on stage and stabbed him more than a dozen times.
Rushdie himself is expected to testify during the trial.
Killing has been in custody since he was subjected by spectators after the attack. He declared himself innocent of attempted murder and assault.
The 77 -year -old author was blinded in an eye in the attack and spent months recovering, a process detailed In a memory Launched last year. A speaker who had to appear with Rushdie was also injured.
It is projected that the trial will last up to two weeks. The jurors are expected to show videos and photos of the attack day.
However, they are unlikely to listen to a Fatwa issued by the late Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini asking for Rushdie’s death, according to District prosecutor Jason Schmidt.
Rushdie, the author of “Midnight’s Children” and “Victory City”, spent hidden years after Jomeini announced the Fatwa in 1989 After the publication of the novel “The satanic verses”, which some Muslims consider blasphemous
Schmidt has said that discussing the reason for killing will be unnecessary in the state trial, since the attack was seen by the live hearing that was present to listen to Rushdie speaking.
“This is not a case of wrong identity,” Schmidt said during his opening statements on Monday. “Lord. Killing is the person who attacked Mr. Rushdie without provocation.”
However, a public defender who represents Mata told the jury that the case is not as simple as prosecutors managed to be.
“The elements of the crime are more than” something really bad, “are more defined,” said Lynn Schaffer. “Something bad happened, something very bad happened, but the district prosecutor has to demonstrate much more than that.”
In a separate accusation, the federal authorities claim that killing was driven to act for the support of a terrorist organization in 2006 of the Fatwa. A subsequent trial on federal terrorism positions will be scheduled in the United States District Court in Buffalo.
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