Salman Rushdie’s attacker Hadi Matar was convicted of terrible stabs

The crazy fanatic, who tried to sting Salman Rushdie to death in a New York lecture, was sentenced to a maximum term of 25 years in prison on Friday.

The 26-year-old Hadi Matar was found guilty in February for attempted murder and attacks because of the terrible attack, in which he tried to carry out a fatwa for decades by giving the 77-year-old writer a lecture at the Chautauqua Institute in August 2022.

Before the conviction, the Knifeman-During his trial, repeated Pro-Palestinian slogans Schrie and made an explanation of the freedom of speech in which he called Rushdie a hypocrite.

Matar received the maximum 25-year sentence for trying to murder Rushdie, and seven years because he wounded a man who was on stage with him. The sentences have to proceed at the same time because both victims were violated in the same event, said district attorney Jason Schmidt.

The verdict became after a seven -day court proceedings, in which Rush defeated the stand to tell the malignant attack, and even shows the jury his signal’s right eye, which he keeps hidden behind a darkened lens in his glasses.

Rushdie also described in frightened detailed, as he feared that he would die when his masked attacker died the knife more than a dozen times into his head and body when he was presented on stage to give the lecture on the safety of the writer.

The film material of the bloodshed played during the experiment showed that a knife approached vibrating matar from behind before stabbing it in front of the horrified audience.

Rushdie stumbled forward when Matar clung to him, swung and prick until they both fell on the floor and were separated from witnesses.

The author was not only blinded in one eye, but also nerve and liver damage – he hardly survived.

Rushdie, who described his recovery in his memoir knife in 2024, spent 17 days in a hospital in Pennsylvania after the attack and more than three weeks in a rehabilitation center in New York City.

Matar-and was born in America, but Lebanese citizenship also has a look before a federal procedure for charges in connection with terrorism.

The authorities stated that Matar had tried to carry out a fatwa or edict for decades who asked Rushdie’s death when he traveled from his house in Fairview, New Jersey, to address the writer.

Matar believed that the Fatwa, which was first exhibited in 1989, was supported by the Lebanon -based militant group Hisbollah and was approved in a 2006 speech by the group’s general secretary, Hassan Nasrallah.

He has not guilty to provide terrorists to provide material, to support Hisbollah materially and to involve terrorism that exceed the national borders.

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