Salman Rushdie has been unplugged from the respirator and is now able to speak again . The BBC announces it. Rushdie's agent Andrew Wylie, who spoke yesterday, also confirmed the news, which came 24 hours after the writer was stabbed during his speech at a conference in New York State. damage to the liver , to the nerves of an arm and above all the risk that the writer could lose an eye .

According to District Attorney Jason Schmidt, Rushdie was stabbed three times on the right side of the front of the neck , four in the stomach , one in the right eye , one in the chest and one in the right thigh . It was therefore ten stab wounds in all.

THE AGGRESSOR - And now new details emerge about the attacker, who would have arrived one day before the event at which the writer was supposed to attend the Chautauqua Institution, presenting himself with a false identity document .

"PREMEDITED ATTACK" - According to the district attorney, therefore, the attack on the writer would have been "targeted and premeditated" . The prosecutor did not specify it, but it is likely that the fake document is the driving license that was found on Hadi Matar and which is in the name of a "martyr" of Hezbollah.

The attacker's public attorney, Nathaniel Barone, complained to the prosecutor that the client was left handcuffed in a police station for too long before being brought before a judge. "He is entitled to the presumption of innocence ," the attorney said, the Associated Press reported. The judge ordered Matar to be arrested without bail.