Crime & Justice

Inside Hadi Matar’s Last Days Before the Stabbing Attack on Salman Rushdie

‘IT’S CHILLING’

Days before his alleged attack on the writer, Hadi Matar wrote a late-night email to his New Jersey gym.

Pilar Melendez
Pilar Melendez 

Senior National Reporter

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Pilar Melendez

Pilar Melendez

Senior National Reporter

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