Police Investigate Threats Against JK Rowling After Salman Rushdie Attack Tweet

British author J. K. Rowling, best known for the Harry Potter series of books, has revealed that Scottish police have opened an investigation after threats were left under her Twitter post about attack on the writer Salman Rushdie. The information was confirmed by the Police Service of Scotland to the agency Bloomberg.

“The police are already involved in the investigation of threats (also those that were left earlier),” Ms. Rowling wrote on her Twitter page. She previously posted screenshots of comments from platform users under her post about the attack on writer Salman Rushdie, who was connected to a ventilator due to injuries inflicted on him by Hadi Mattar. One commenter told Ms Rowling that “she’ll be next.”

In a tweet, Ms Rowling said she was “feeling really bad” after the attack on Mr Rushdie. According to Bloomberg, in the same account from which the writer was threatened, there were messages praising the attacker on Salman Rushdie. A threatening tweet to Ms Rowling, said to have been sent from Pakistan, was deleted this morning, August 14.

Last year, the writer claimed to have received threats after transgender activists made her home address public. The year before, she had been accused of transphobia after a joke about alternative gender names.

Andrey Sapozhnikov