British writer JK Rowling, known worldwide for being the author of the Harry Potter saga, received death threats after posting a tweet in which she supported her colleague Salman Rushdie, who was stabbed in the neck moments before he gave a conference.
The events occurred early Friday morning when Hadi Matar, 24, rushed onto the stage of the auditorium stabbing “at least once in the neck and once in the abdomen” to Rushdie, according to the New York police.
The last medical report on the writer’s health ensured that he was stable and the ventilator that had been placed on him had been removed so that he could breathe.
Rowling retweeted the news of the writer’s attack on her account accompanied by the message: “Horrible news” and in a comment on the same retweet she wrote “I feel very sick right now. Be well.”
Later, the threat came: “Don’t worry, you’re next”, which was witnessed by thousands of her followers, who began to alert the author. Rowling did not hesitate to ask for help from Twitter support, who later replied that the tweet she had reported had not violated the platform’s rules. However, she confirmed that the police were already aware of the case.
The message was posted from the account of a user who defines himself in his profile as a student and political activist from Karachi, Pakistan.
Rushdie was threatened with death since 1989
Salman Rushdie lives under a death sentence issued in 1989 by the then Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who issued a religious decree (fatwa) ordering Muslims to kill him after the publication of the book “The Satanic Verses”, by which he considered blasphemous.
Last year, Rowling claimed to have received numerous death threats from, according to her, activists for the rights of transgender people, a group against which she has repeatedly demonstrated.
ABC