JK Rowling was threatened with death, through the social network Twitter, after regretting the attack on Salman Rushdie, wishing the best to the author of “The Satanic Verses”. “I feel really bad right now. Hope he’s okay,” she wrote, after learning the writer had been stabbed 15 times after taking the stage at an event in New York.
“Don’t worry, you’re next”, answered a user of the social network named Meer Asif Aziz, who has in the description that he is a student, social activist and politician. A series of tweets followed that gave an account of the situation. Following the threat, the author of the “Harry Potter” saga asked for help on Twitter: “Any chance for support?” She wrote, sharing the photo of the author of the attack on Rushdie, as well as the photo of the man who attacked him. . she made the threat, along with a publication of hers, with the image of the author of the attack on the writer: “This man’s name is Hadi Matar. He is a Shiite revolutionary fighter who followed the fate of the late Ayatollah Rohullah Khomenei.”
.@Twitter Help any chance of any support? pic.twitter.com/AoeCzmTKaU
— JK Rowling (@jk_rowling) August 13, 2022
Hours later, he announced that the authorities were already involved in the case: “To all those who are sending messages of support: thank you. The police are involved (already involved in other threats).”
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The author was involved in a controversy related to the transgender community, which has also generated several death threats. Her address was even made public on Twitter in November. At the time, the writer revealed that she received so many death threats that she could “line the whole house with them.”
Salman Rushdie was stabbed between 10 and 15 times moments after taking the stage at the Chautauqua Institution to speak at an event in New York. He has already undergone surgery and is ventilated.
Source: Observadora
