The unconventional accused of stabbing writer Salman Rushdie blurted “Free Palestine” as he walked into the courtroom on Monday.
Hati Matar, the 26-year-old New Jersey man who tried to kill the author in upstate New York in 2022, made the assertion as he walked by reporters on the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, New York — however in any other case remained quiet.
Matar stormed a stage and stabbed Rushdie no less than 10 occasions throughout a literary seminar on the native Chautauqua Establishment in August 2022, leaving the 77-year-old novelist blind in a single eye and affected by nerve and liver harm.
He’s pleaded not responsible to tried homicide and assault.
