The writer Salman Rushdie He was attacked this Friday on stage when he was participating in an act in Chautauqua, a town in western New York state, according to local media reports. According to initial information, the British-Indian authorthreatened with death for his writings for decades, has been stabbed and taken to a hospital.
The New York police have subsequently arrested the alleged aggressor of the writer, who is 75 years old.
In photographs and videos published on social networks, a person, identified as Rushdie, can be seen on the ground and being attended to on stage. Apparently, the writer was stabbed in the neck by a member of the public who pounced on him at the moment the presenter of the act was in attendance, and was evacuated urgently in a helicopter, although at the moment his condition is unknown. find. “We are facing an emergency,” declared a spokesman for the Chatauqua Institution, organizer of the event. The presenter has also been slightly injured in the head.
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Salman Rushdie, a.k.a Indian-born British writer Winner of multiple awards, he published in 1988 Satanic Verses, a novel written in a style close to Latin American magical realism and inspired in part by the life of the Prophet Mohammed. The work sparked a great controversy among Muslim believers, who considered that he was making fun of his religious faith. In Iran, the late Ayatollah Khomeini even approved a silly (religious edict) calling for the writer’s death in 1989, which forced him to live semi-hidden.
The Government of Iran ended up distancing itself from Khomeini’s ‘fatwa’, but, in 2012, a Iranian religious foundation semiofficial raised the reward for Rushdie from 2.8 million dollars to 3.3 million dollars
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