The man convicted of stabbing Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage in 2022, leaving the prizewinning author blind in one eye, was sentenced Friday to serve 25 years in prison.

Hadi Matar avait attaqué l’auteur des « Versets sataniques » le 12 août 2022, lui laissant des dommages corporels irréversibles. Il encourt respectivement vingt-cinq et sept ans…

A jury found Hadi Matar, 27, guilty of attempted murder and assault in February.