Norway reopens Satanic Verses shooting case

William Nygaard was shot three times outward his home in 1993

Last Updated: Saturday, Nov 27, 2010 | 3:59 PM ET

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Novelist Salman Rushdie published 'The Satanic Verses,' in 1989, after which the death hazard forced him to live in stealing underneath military protection for scarcely the decade. (Lluis Gene/AFP/Getty)Norwegian police, boosted by the reward, have reopened an review into the 1993 attempted gangland slaying of the Norwegian publisher of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses.William Nygaard, CEO of the Aschehoug publishing house, was shot three times outward his residence in Oslo upon Oct. 11, 1993. Though severely injured, he recovered as good as says he's happy to hear the news.Nygaard told Aftenposten journal which finding his attempted murderer was critical "primarily to urge Norwegian values of leisure of expression."A prerogative of 500,000 kroner ($8,300 Cdn) is being mutually offering by Aschehoug as good as the Norwegian Publishers' Association, for any new information which would lead to an arrest.Christian Opsahl from the association called the conflict "an open wound which will not heal until the box is closed."In 1989, the fatwa was released opposite Rushdie by Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, who called upon Muslims to execute him following the publication of his novel The Satanic Verses, seen as blasphemous because of the depiction of the Prophet.That resulted in Rushdie starting into stealing for nine years, underneath the constant protection of Scotland Yard's Special Branch. The Iranian leadership softened the position in 1998, permitting Rushdie to walk freely in public once more.

Investigative book reopens case

The reopening of Nygaard's box comes in the arise of the September publication of the book, Who Shot William Nygaard?, by publisher Odd Isungset, who has followed the story for seventeen years. '[It's] the usuall! y appreh ension conflict upon Norwegian dirt since WW II.'Odd Isungset In the book, Isungset outlines sum of the box as good as the suspects as good as the problems which beset the strange investigation. Isungset points fingers at the suspect who bought the one-way ticket to Iran in cash the day after the attack."This is the really critical box the usually apprehension conflict upon Norwegian dirt since World War II," Isungset told the Guardian newspaper.Nygaard wasn't the usually person continuous with The Satanic Verses who got attacked. In 1991, the Japanese translator of the book, Hitoshi Igarashi, was killed as good as the Italian translator, Ettore Caprioli was additionally attacked. No one has been arrested in those cases either.Rushdie recently voiced he was working upon the memoir which would open up the decade he had to go into hiding, set for release in 2011.The 66-year-old writer says he will additionally plead how The Satanic Verses came to be."The thing which [was] worse about it [was] the loss of spontaneity," said Rushdie in the recent CNN interview connected with his life underground.
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