The slashing of a man in the East Village earlier this month was the victim’s — and US government’s — fault, the suspect told The Post on Friday as yet another alleged attacker awaited arraignment.
Slash suspect Francis Salud spoke at the Manhattan Detention Complex, as Ras Alula Nagarit was facing assault, weapons and menacing charges for slashing a woman with a machete in a random attack on a subway train in Brooklyn on Tuesday.
Nagarit, 37, admitted to getting into an argument with his victim on the train and attacking her, law-enforcement sources said Friday.
He had his face splashed across The Post’s front page on Thursday morning and turned himself in that night.
His prior arrests include a 1996 robbery in The Bronx and in 2013 tossing a hot pot of oxtail soup on a woman with whom he was arguing in a Brooklyn apartment, burning her, law-enforcement sources said.
Meanwhile, Salud, 28, is accused of slashing a stranger’s face in Manhattan, leaving him with 150 stitches.
Salud told The Post he was on his way to score some pot when victim Anthony Christopher Smith walked toward him near Third Avenue and East Sixth Street on Jan. 16.
“Yo, Jamaica, you got some of that good bud?” Salud said he asked Smith.
“I don’t even f–k with you gooks,” Smith responded, according to Salud.
“My emotions overwhelmed me, and I didn’t even realize what was going on,” Salud said, adding that he’s unemployed and picked up a drug habit at age 12.
Salud added, “The government is profiting from the conflict between Caucasians and African-Americans, and it’s getting worse.”
As for the spike in slashings in the city, he said, “I know about the slashings, but they didn’t have any effect on me.”
Smith, who is black, denies ever uttering a racial slur.
“There was no conversation,” he told The Post. “I was attacked.”
Smith said he’s still recovering from his wound. “Some days are better than others,” he said. “I’m still out of work.”
Additional reporting by Shawn Cohen