Hadi kill, the 27 -year -old man who tried to kill the writer Salman Rushdie in New York in 2022, has been sentenced this Friday to 25 years in jail by a judge in the County Court of Chautauqua, in the state of New York, near the place where the attack took place. Killing, who stabbed the author left Tuerto, was declared guilty by a jury last February after less than two hours of deliberation. The penalty imposed is the maxim to which it was exposed in this trial.
The jury also found in February guilty to kill a crime of aggression for hurting Henry Reese, the host of the act, sitting next to the writer and tried to prevent the attack. The judge has sentenced this Friday seven years in prison for that crime, but the penalty is fulfilled simultaneously, so that the duration of the penalty is not altered. Killing has a pending to be judged for terrorism -related positions.
Rushdie has not attended this Friday in view in which the conviction has been issued, although it was the main witness for seven days of testimonies, in which he described with great detail how he lived the attempt at murder, as well as his long and painful recovery.
Before being sentenced, Mata stood up this Friday in the courtroom and made a statement on freedom of expression in which he described Rushdie as a hypocritical, according to Associated Press. “Salman Rushdie wants to disrespect other people,” he said, dressed in the white stripes of jail and handcuff. “He wants to be a thug, he wants to intimidate other people. I don’t agree with that,” he added.
On the morning of August 12, 2022, Mat. The aggressor stabbed more than a dozen times to the writer, with dual British and American nationality, before the audience. The attack left the right -year -old novelist from the right eye, and also wounded the tendons of the left hand, with which he tried to defend himself.
The video of the attack, captured by the cameras of the enclosure and reproduced during the trial, shows to kill approaching Rushdie, who was sitting, behind and surrounding him to stab him in the torso with a knife. While the public shouts and starts, the writer is seen raising his arms, walking after leaving his seat and staggering a few steps hanging from him, swinging and stabbing him until both fall and are surrounded by the spectators who rush to separate them.
When requesting the maximum penalty, the district prosecutor, Jason Schmidt, told the judge to kill “designed the attack to cause the greatest possible damage, not only to Mr. Rushdie, but to the entire community, to the 1,400 people who were there to see it.” The lawyer Nathaniel Barone said that killing had no criminal record and questioned that people in the public should be considered victims, suggesting that a 12 -year penalty would be adequate.
Rushdie spent 17 days at a hospital in Pennsylvania and more than three weeks in a rehabilitation center in New York City. The writer detailed his recovery in his 2024 memoir Knife.
Fatua de Jomeini
Kill now faces a federal trial for crimes related to terrorism. The authorities claimed that killing, American citizen, tried Satanic verses, that some Muslims consider blasphemous. Rushdie spent nine years hidden, but after Iran announced that he would not apply the decree, he began to appear in public during the last quarter of the century.
Killing, from Shiite religion as the ayatolás who direct Iran and who issued the fatua against Rushdie, has also been investigated for its alleged links with the Chií Míí Lebanese Milicia Hezbollah, which appears in the list of terrorist organizations in the United States and the European Union. According to an accusation made public last July, in addition to the positions for which he has been convicted, killing was accused by a federal court to provide material support to Hezbollah. During the trial, the young man shouted against Israel and described him as an murderous state.
The conviction traveled from his home in Fairview (New Jersey), to attack Rushdie in his summer residence, about 112 kilometers southwest of buffalo. Killing believed that Fatua, first issued in 1989, was backed by the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and backed in a 2006 speech by the general secretary of the group, Hasan Nasralá, according to federal prosecutors.
Killing declared himself innocent of the three positions that were imputed to provide material to terrorists, try to provide material support to Hezbollah and participate in terrorist acts that crossed the national borders.
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