The writer no longer needs a ventilator to breathe and can speak. According to some media, he would have received seven or eight stab wounds.American Hadi Matar, 24, the son of Lebanese immigrants, has been formally charged with attempted murder in the stabbing of writer Salman Rushdie. The United States authorities maintain a strict silence about Matar, although his "trace" on social networks shows him as a Muslim extremist and sympathizer of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, the elite military force of that country, much more ideologized. and aligned with Islamic fundamentalism than the Iranian Armed Forces.
Hadi Matar pleaded "not guilty" to "attempted murder" in a New York state court.