The attacker’s knife strokes were blinded by the eye, breaking the tendons of the hand, paralyzed by the nerves of the mouth – Rushdie of Salman gave a witness in the trial

Author Salman Rushdie gave a witness statement on Tuesday in trial in a Lebanese American Up to the Tales accused of his attempted murder. The trial began on Monday, February 10, and Rushdie was called the prosecutor’s witness at the Tuesday morning session on the east coast of the United States.

The trial will be held in Mayville in the state of New York. It is followed by a British broadcaster, among others BBC.

Rushdie was a lecture guest at Chautaauqua at an event in New York in August 2022, when he was attacked by a knife attack. Matar was caught on site.

In trial Rushdie told how he only saw the attacker at the very last minute. He was on stage an interviewer HENRY travel With the attack began. On Monday, witnesses reported their findings in their statements, and one of them confirmed that the attacker was actually Matar.

Rushdie himself saw the attacker as a dark -haired man dressed in black clothes and face masks. “At first I thought he had hit me with a fist,” Rushdie said in his testimony.

“Very after that, I really saw a lot of blood flowing into my clothes.”

Rushdie said everything happened very quickly. He knew several knives. Of these, the most dangerous and painful was a blow to the right eye, which blinded the eye.

He sought to protect himself with his left hand, which is why the attacker’s knife strokes cut off all the tendons of his hand, as did most of its nerves, the BBC says.

Rushdie sought to flee, but immediately fell on the stage. He says he has seen “a blood pond that was obviously my own blood.”

“It came to my mind that I was dying – it was my top thought.”

Rush According to the attacker, the interviewer Henry Reese was the first to get the audience to help.

“I noticed a small human mound on my right that practically curled the attacker. Thanks to it, I survived. ”

Rushdie was flown with a helicopter to a hospital with a long recovery process in front. In addition to the eye injury, permanent damage came, for example, around his mouth, where the paralysis of the nerves has made his speech yield more difficult. Left -hand damage has required therapy for more than half a year. He also received damage to his viscera.

Matarin In the cross -heeling of the defense, Rushdie was asked about the reliability of his memories. This said he had some false memories of the attack. For example, he thought he was standing at the start of the attack, but in fact he was sitting.

The defense lawyer also asked if he remembered that he had received 15 knives, as he had previously said or whether he learned from medical documents.

“I was able to see them in my body afterwards. I didn’t have to tell me about them, ”Rushdie replied.