(AP) Jurors watched videos Friday showing Salman Rushdie being repeatedly stabbed on a stage in western New York while audience members gasped in horror at the attack that left the [prize]-winning novelist seriously wounded and blinded in one eye.
It was the first time chaotic footage of the assault has been played during the trial of Hadi Matar, 27, who is charged with attempted murder.
The video recorded by the Chautauqua Institution’s house cameras on Aug. 12, 2022, shows fleeting views of Rushdie’s assailant, dressed in black and wearing a black face mask, as he quickly strikes the author over and over before being tackled by bystanders and pinned to the stage.
