Hadi Matar, 24, of Fairview, New Jersey, has been incarcerated aft pleading not blameworthy to attempted execution and battle successful the Aug. 12 onslaught connected Rushdie arsenic helium was being introduced astatine the Chautauqua Institution, a halfway 55 miles southwest of Buffalo that is known for its summertime lecture series.
After the attack, Rushdie was treated astatine a Pennsylvania hospital, wherever helium was concisely enactment connected a ventilator to retrieve from what Wylie told El Pais was a “brutal attack” that chopped nerves to 1 arm.
Wylie told the paper helium could not accidental whether Rushdie remained successful a infirmary oregon sermon his whereabouts.
“He’s going to unrecorded ... That’s the important thing,” Wylie said.
The onslaught was on the lines of what Rushie and his cause person thought was the “principal information ... a random idiosyncratic coming retired of obscurity and attacking,” Wylie told El Pais.
“So you can’t support against it due to the fact that it’s wholly unexpected and illogical,” helium said.
Wylie told the paper it was similar the execution of erstwhile Beatle John Lennon, the legendary singer-songwriter. Lennon was changeable to decease by Mark David Chapman extracurricular his Manhattan flat gathering Dec. 8, 1980, hours aft the vocalist had signed an autograph for Chapman.
In a jailhouse interrogation with The New York Post, Matar said helium disliked Rushdie and praised Khomeini. Iran has denied engagement successful the attack.
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