Sir Salman Rushdie’s suspected attacker has been charged with tried second diploma homicide.
Hadi Matar, 24, was recognized by New York police after the assault on Friday.
Police haven’t established a motive for the stabbing that left the creator, 75, severely injured.
He stays on a ventilator in hospital.
This is what we all know of the suspect up to now:
Born within the US
Matar is from Fairview, New Jersey, and had purchased a move to the occasion on the Chautauqua Institution.
Spectator Kathleen Jones mentioned the attacker was wearing black, with a black masks.
Matar was born within the United States to Lebanese mother and father who emigrated from Yaroun, a border village in southern Lebanon, Mayor Ali Tehfe instructed the AP information company.
He is believed to have been born a few decade after the publication of The Satanic Verses, the guide that drew Sir Salman dying threats, in 1988.
According to NBC, he was born in California, however had not too long ago moved to New Jersey.
Sources mentioned that Matar additionally had a faux New Jersey driver’s licence on him.
Police and the FBI have cordoned off the realm round Matar’s dwelling.
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‘Extremist sympathies’ probed
The authorities are uncertain if Matar had a prison report, New York State Police Maj Eugene J Staniszewski mentioned.
A backpack believed to have been left by the suspect was rendered secure by sheriff’s bomb squad members, and state troopers have requested a search warrant to look inside, Maj Staniszewski mentioned.
According to NBC News, which cited a legislation enforcement official with direct information of the investigation, a preliminary evaluation of Matar’ social media exhibits he had sympathies for Shia extremism and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
The IRGC has been labelled a terrorist organisation by the US.
Authorities are trying into these alleged sympathies. However, there aren’t any definitive hyperlinks between Matar and the IRGC, the legislation enforcement supply instructed NBC.
The Iran-backed Lebanese armed group Hezbollah has mentioned it had no info on the stabbing and wouldn’t touch upon it.
Mobile cellphone checked
A cell phone messaging app belonging to Matar contains photos of Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the IRGC killed in a US drone strike in January 2020.
The cellphone additionally reportedly contains a picture of an Iraqi extremist sympathetic to the Iranian regime.
Matar’s lawyer, Nathaniel Barone, mentioned he was nonetheless gathering info and declined to remark.
Source: information.sky.com”