The suspect, 24-year-old Hadi Matar, appeared in a county court on Saturday and pleaded not guilty to one count of second-degree attempted murder
The man suspected of stabbing novelist Salman Rushdie last week in western New York will appear in court on Thursday afternoon, the prosecutor’s office said.author was to deliver a lecture on stage at an educational retreat near Lake Erie.
The suspect appeared in a county court on Saturday and pleaded not guilty to one count of second-degree attempted murder and an additional count of assault in the second degree after a criminal complaint filed by prosecutors.
In an interview published by the New York Post on Wednesday, Matar said he respected Khomeini but would not say if he was inspired by the fatwa. He said he had “read a couple of pages” of“I don’t like him very much,” Matar said of Rushdie, as reported in the Post. “He’s someone who attacked Islam, he attacked their beliefs, the belief systems.”
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