Salman Rushdie has portrayd in court the moment he was attacked on stage.
The British-Indian author, who was stabbed as he was preparing to donate a speech in August 2022, took the stand in a New York courtroom to donate evidence aacquirest the man indictd in the attack.
Rushdie, 77, was blinded in one eye in the attack, suffered a harshly injured hand, and spent months recovering.
He telderly the court: “I only saw him at the last minute.
“I was conscious of someone wearing bdeficiency clothes, or unwise clothes and a bdeficiency face mask.
“I was very struck by his eyes, which were unwise and seemed very ferocious to me.
“I thought he was hitting me with his fist but I saw a big quantity of blood pouring onto my clothes. He was hitting me repeatedly. Hitting and slashing,” he shelp.
Hadi Matar, 27, is indictd with finisheavored killing and attack for attacking Rushdie.
He has pdirected not at fault, and the trial persists.
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