Alexis Guilleux 7:18 a.m., October 24, 2022
Two months after his attack, the writer Salman Rushdie has serious consequences, his agent communicated in an interview with the Spanish daily El País.
Target of a fatwa since the 1980s following the publication of his book The Satanic Verses, he had been stabbed 18 times during a conference in New York.
He was assaulted more than two months ago in the United States.
The agent of writer Salman Rushdie, who was stabbed during a conference near New York, spoke about his state of health in an interview with the Spanish daily
El País
.
The consequences are serious.
A dreaded scenario
Salman Rushdie has lost the use of one eye and one hand since his attack on August 12, stabbed severely three times in the neck and fifteen other times in the chest.
Deep wounds, explains his agent to the Spanish daily
El País
, without specifying whether the writer is still in hospital.
But Salman Rushdie will live, that's the most important thing.
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The author of the
Satanic Verses
has been the target of a fatwa since the end of the 1980s. His account, deemed blasphemous by Ayatollah Khomeini, has forced him to live for three decades in hiding and under police protection.
The attack in August, with a stranger who appears out of nowhere, was the kind of dreaded attack, says his agent, who considers it to be a scenario from which one cannot protect oneself.
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