British writer Salman Rushdie’s attacker is a 24-year-old man named Hadi Matar, who is still in custody, New York State Police said Friday.
At a press conference at 17:00 local time (22:00 continental Portugal) to present the details of the attack, the police said they still had no information about the cause of the aggression.
The assailant is a young resident of Fairview in neighboring New Jersey, said a police spokesman who testified in Jamestown, the New York city where Hadi Matar is being held.
A police spokesman added that Hadi Matar stabbed Rushdie at least once in the neck and another in the stomach, and that the writer is “still in the operating room” at a hospital in Erie, Pennsylvania, but his condition is unknown.
The writer’s injuries may have been serious, judging by the hours he’s spent in the operating room since he was airlifted from Chautauqua.
A police spokesman also said that Rushdie was initially treated by a doctor who attended the conference. A medical officer also treated another speaker, Henry Reese, who was also attacked and suffered facial injuries but has since been discharged.
Rushdie was attacked as he began a lecture in Chautauqua, New York, “at about 11:00 am. [locais, 16 horas Portugal continental]”, – said the police, specifying that the suspect was detained.
“The suspect came onto the stage and attacked Rushdie and the presenter. Rushdie received an apparent stab wound to the neck and was flown by helicopter to a local hospital. His condition [de saúde] not yet known,” the NYPD posted on its website shortly after the attack.
Salman Rushdie is the author of The Satanic Verses, a work for which he was sentenced to death by Iranian religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini, who issued a fatwa (Islamic law decree) against the Booker Prize-winning writer.
The writer came to live in an unknown direction, under guard.
Iran then offered a $3 million reward to anyone who killed Rushdie.
The Iranian government has long distanced itself from Khomeini’s decree, but anti-Rushdie sentiment persists.
In 2012, the Iranian Religious Foundation increased the bounty for Rushdie’s assassination to $3.3 million.
At the time, Rushdie downplayed the threat, saying there was “no evidence” that anyone was interested in the reward.
In the same year, the writer published a memoir “Joseph Anton – Recollection” about the “fatwa”.
Author of nearly two dozen books, Rushdie won the Booker Prize in 1981 for Midnight’s Children, also awarded the Booker Prize in 1993, and in 2008 for The Best of Booker.
“O Último Suspiro do Mouro” earned him the Withbread Prize in 1995 and the European Union Literary Prize in 1996.
Salman Rushdie settled in New York about 20 years ago, and today he planned to work at the Chautauqua Institution, a cultural center located in western New York State.
Salman Rushdie is published in Portugal by Dom Quixote.
Putin has repeatedly consulted with Russian Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu about the invasion, Europa Press told Ukraine’s chief intelligence director Vadim Skibitsky.
According to Skibitsky, it was the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), which is responsible for counterintelligence and espionage work, that put pressure on Gerasimov and other military agencies to agree to launch an offensive. .
However, according to the Ukrainian intelligence services, the FSB considered that by the end of February sufficient preparations had already been made to guarantee the success of the Russian Armed Forces in a lightning invasion.
However, according to Kyiv, the Russian General Staff provided the Russian troops with supplies and ammunition for only three days, hoping that the offensive would be swift and immediately successful.
The head of Ukrainian intelligence also emphasized the cooperation of local residents, who always provided the Ukrainian authorities with up-to-date information about the Russian army, such as the number of soldiers or the exact location of troops.
The military offensive launched on February 24 by Russia in Ukraine caused at least 6.5 million internally displaced persons and more than 7.8 million refugees to European countries, which is why the UN classifies this migration crisis as the worst in Europe since World War II (1939-1945). gg.). ).
At the moment, 17.7 million Ukrainians are in need of humanitarian assistance, and 9.3 million are in need of food aid and housing.
The UN has presented as confirmed 6,755 civilian deaths and 10,607 wounded since the beginning of the war, stressing that these figures are much lower than the real ones.
A Stockholm court on Monday sentenced a former Swedish intelligence officer to life in prison for spying for Russia, and his brother to at least 12 years in prison. In what is considered one of the most serious cases in Swedish counterintelligence history, much of the trial took place behind closed doors in the name of national security.
According to the prosecution, it was Russian military intelligence, the GRU, who took advantage of the information provided by the two brothers between 2011 and their arrest at the end of 2021.
Peyman Kia, 42, has held many senior positions in the Swedish security apparatus, including the army and his country’s intelligence services (Säpo). His younger brother, Payam, 35, is accused of “participating in the planning” of the plot and of “managing contacts with Russia and the GRU, including passing on information and receiving financial rewards.”
Both men deny the charges, and their lawyers have demanded an acquittal on charges of “aggravated espionage,” according to the Swedish news agency TT.
The trial coincides with another case of alleged Russian espionage, with the arrest of the Russian-born couple in late November in a suburb of Stockholm by a police team arriving at dawn in a Blackhawk helicopter.
Research website Bellingcat identified them as Sergei Skvortsov and Elena Kulkova. The couple allegedly acted as sleeper agents for Moscow, having moved to Sweden in the late 1990s.
According to Swedish press reports, the couple ran companies specializing in the import and export of electronic components and industrial technology.
The man was again detained at the end of November for “illegal intelligence activities.” His partner, suspected of being an accomplice, has been released but remains under investigation.
According to Swedish authorities, the arrests are not related to the trial of the Kia brothers.
“They can strengthen their positions. We understand that this can happen. At the same time, we do not rule out that they will announce a general mobilization,” Danilov said in an interview with the Ukrainska Pravda online publication.
Danilov believed that this mobilization would also be convened “to exterminate as many as possible” of Russian citizens, so that “they would no longer have any problems on their territory.”
In this sense, Danilov also reminded that Russia has not given up on securing control over Kyiv or the idea of the complete “destruction” of Ukraine. “We have to be ready for anything,” he said.
“I want everyone to understand that [os russos] they have not given up on the idea of destroying our nation. If they don’t have Kyiv in their hands, they won’t have anything in their hands, we must understand this,” continued Danilov, who also did not rule out that a new Russian offensive would come from “Belarus and other territories.” .
As such, Danilov praised the decision of many of its residents who chose to stay in the Ukrainian capital when the war broke out in order to defend the city.
“They expected that there would be panic, that people would run, that there would be nothing to protect Kyiv,” he added, referring to President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The military offensive launched on February 24 by Russia in Ukraine caused at least 6.5 million internally displaced persons and more than 7.8 million refugees to European countries, which is why the UN classifies this migration crisis as the worst in Europe since World War II (1939-1945). gg.). ).
At the moment, 17.7 million Ukrainians are in need of humanitarian assistance, and 9.3 million are in need of food aid and housing.
The Russian invasion, justified by Russian President Vladimir Putin on the need to “denazify” and demilitarize Ukraine for Russia’s security, was condemned by the international community at large, which responded by sending weapons to Ukraine and imposing political and economic sanctions on Russia.
The UN has presented as confirmed 6,755 civilian deaths and 10,607 wounded since the beginning of the war, stressing that these figures are much lower than the real ones.
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