The accused refused to stab the British novelist of Indian origin Salman Rushdie In 2022, his testimony was submitted to defend themselves, while the defense lawyers ended their defense without calling a witness.
“No, I don’t want,” said Hadi Matar, 27, who is in New Jersey.
Prosecutors summoned, earlier Thursday, a legal doctor as a last witness, to end the seven days during which the certificates were heard, in particular Rushdie himself who was attacked at a conference in New York about 3 years ago.
The American of Lebanese origin, Hadi Matar, is tried to try to kill and attack the attack which took place near the Chatakua Foundation, and led the left eye to Rashidi, 77, as well as D ‘Other injuries.
The defendant faces a separate trial for “terrorism”, after having been paid before the local courts in his innocence of the accusations of “trying to kill” and “assault”, and risks the possibility of condemned to 25 years of prison.
During the conference mentioned, Rushdie received approximately 15 stabs in the head, neck, trunk and left hand, which led to the loss of his right eye and the damage of the liver and the intestine.
Rushdie had spent most of the 90s hiding in the United Kingdom, after having received death threats due to his “demonic worms” published in 1988.