Salman Rushdie testified that he thought he was dying after stabbing

SER SALMAN RUSHDIE has told a court who thought he was dying after being stabbed repeatedly on stage two years ago, leaving him blind from one eye.

The renowned British author-Indian gave evidence in the trial of his alleged attacker, Hadi Mata, 27, who declared himself innocent of assault positions and attempt to murder.

The procedures are carried out in a court in the state of New York a few miles where Salman serves was attacked on August 12, 2022 when he was about to talk about how the United States was a refuge for exiled writers.

The attack occurred after Sir Salman spent years hidden due to threats to his life after his novel The Satanic Versos was published in 1988.

WARNING: This story contains anguishing details

The prosecutors, who have not specified a reason for stabbing, called Sir Salman to the stand as the first witness on Tuesday morning, asking him to remember the previous moments and after the attack.

The 77 -year -old man told the jury that the day in question, he had been sitting on the stage ready to go to an audience in the prestigious Chautauqua institution.

Shortly after Salman was presented, he said he noticed that a person rushed to him from his right side.

He described the attacker with dark clothes and a facial mask, and said he was hit by the individual’s eyes, “that they were dark and seemed very fierce.”

Sir Salman said he felt the first blow in his jaw and the right neck, and thought at the beginning they had hit him. Then he saw blood spilling on his clothes.

“At that time I was hitting me repeatedly, stabbing and cutting,” said the author, added that the incident developed in seconds.

Sir Salman told the court that a total of 15 times was beaten, with wounds in the eye, the cheek, the neck, the chest, the torso and the thigh.

His left hand was also stabbed when he tried to defend himself.

The wounded knife was the most painful, he said.

At one point, he removed his glasses, which hid his right eye with a dark lens, to reveal the scope of the injury.

“As you can see, that’s what remains of that,” he told the jury. “There is no vision in the eye at all.”

While Sirman served, who wore a dark suit, he pronounced his testimony, Mr. Kill often had his head down, and the two never seemed to make visual contact.

Sir Salman’s wife, Lady Rushdie, cried with her seat in the second row while her husband had the incident.

He has been concerned with his safety since the publication of satanic verses, his surreal and postmodern novel inspired by the life of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad.

Although he met acclamation and awards in the western world, many Muslims considered Blasso and some countries prohibited him. Iran’s religious leader issued a Fatwa asking for the author’s death due to the book.

That Fatwa, a religious decree, made Salman serve innumerable death threats. He was forced to hide for nine years and only began traveling again when Iran said he would not enforce the law.

Two weeks before the attack, the author had told a German magazine that he was living a “relatively normal” life since the threats had decreased.

But the attack on Sirman in Chautauqua, New York, destroyed that sense of security.

The writer told the court on Tuesday that in the moments later, “it occurred to me clearly that I was dying, that was my predominant thought.”

He also described feeling as if he were lying in “a blood lake.”

He recalled how the spectators, including the members of the audience, submitted the attacker.

“And thanks to that, I survived,” Sir Salman said.

The author told the jury that he was transferred by plane to a trauma center, where he received treatment for his wounds for 17 days.

Mr. Kill was arrested on the scene.

The suspect’s lawyer, Lynn Schaffer, interrogated Sir Salman and asked him if he could trust her memory of the events given the trauma he suffered.

The author replied that trauma can alter people’s memory, but added that he was sure he had been injured 15 times.

“Then I could see (the wounds) in my body,” he said. “I didn’t need anyone to tell me.”

When asked if he had ever had some contact with the suspect before the attack, Sir Salman replied that he had not. He also said that the attacker told him nothing.

It is expected to be called more witnesses to the stand in the next few days, including the surgeon who operated in Sir Salman, as well as the law agents who responded to the attack.