On this reserving photograph launched on June 2, 2025, by the Boulder Police Division, Mohamed Sabry Soliman is seen on the Boulder County Jail on June 1, 2025, in Boulder, Colorado. A person yelling “free Palestine” used incendiary units to torch protesters rallying in assist of Israeli hostages, injuring not less than eight individuals within the US state of Colorado on June 1, 2025. The FBI mentioned it was investigating the incident as a “focused terror assault” and recognized the suspect as 45-year-old Mohamed Sabry Soliman. He was booked into the county jail simply earlier than midnight on a number of felony prices, in accordance with county information. His bond has been set at $10 million. (Photograph by HANDOUT / Boulder County Sheriff’s Workplace / AFP)
BOULDER, United States — The person suspected of a Molotov cocktail assault on Jewish protesters in Colorado is going through federal hate crime prices, officers mentioned Monday, as President Donald Trump’s administration vowed to pursue “terrorists” dwelling within the US on visas.
Mohammed Sabry Soliman is alleged to have thrown fireplace bombs and sprayed burning gasoline at a bunch of people that had gathered on Sunday in assist of Israeli hostages held by Hamas.
Twelve individuals have been damage within the assault within the metropolis of Boulder, police mentioned, two of them significantly. Most of these taken to the hospital have now been discharged.
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J. Bishop Grewell, performing US Lawyer for the District of Colorado, informed reporters the 45-year-old suspect had been planning the assault for a yr.
Soliman threw “Molotov cocktails at a bunch of women and men, a few of them of their late 80s, burning them as they peacefully walked on a Sunday to attract consideration to Israeli hostages held in Gaza,” he mentioned.
“When he was interviewed concerning the assault, he mentioned he wished all of them to die. He had no regrets, and he would return and do it once more.”
Soliman informed investigators he had beforehand tried to purchase a gun, however had been thwarted as a result of he was not a US citizen.
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Police who rushed to the scene of the assault discovered 16 unused Molotov cocktails and a backpack weed sprayer containing gasoline that investigators say he had supposed to make use of as a makeshift flamethrower.
Soliman faces federal hate crime prices that would end in a life sentence, in addition to state prices for tried homicide that would carry tons of of years jail time.
US Homeland Safety officers mentioned Soliman was within the nation illegally, having overstayed a vacationer visa, however that he had utilized for asylum in September 2022.
Trump lashed out at his predecessor, Joe Biden, over the incident.
“Yesterday’s horrific assault in Boulder, Colorado, WILL NOT BE TOLERATED in the USA of America,” Trump mentioned on his Fact Social community, describing it as a “horrible tragedy.”
He blamed “Biden’s ridiculous Open Border Coverage” for permitting Soliman into the nation.
“That is one more instance of why we should maintain our Borders SECURE, and deport Unlawful, Anti-American Radicals from our Homeland,” he wrote.
His Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, vowed to search out individuals who wreak havoc.
“All terrorists, their members of the family, and terrorist sympathizers right here on a visa ought to know that below the Trump Administration, we’ll discover you, revoke your visa, and deport you,” he wrote on social media.
Bystander Video
The assault occurred on Sunday afternoon throughout an everyday demonstration in assist of hostages taken within the assault on Israel by Hamas gunmen on October 7, 2023.
In a single video that purportedly exhibits the assault, a shirtless man holding bottles in his palms is seen pacing because the grass in entrance of him burns.
He might be heard screaming “Finish Zionists!” and “They’re killers!” in direction of a number of individuals in pink T-shirts as they have an inclination to an individual mendacity on the bottom.
Different pictures confirmed billowing black smoke.
In one other video, a police officer rushes to arrest the identical man, who’s mendacity on the grass. A number of persons are milling round close by.
Witness Brian Horowitz informed CNN he had rushed in direction of the scene to see if he may assist.
“The attacker was yelling issues like: ‘You effing Zionists. Kill my individuals. I kill you’ at 20 completely different individuals,” he mentioned.
“He was saying: ‘You’re a killer. You’re a killer,’ making eye contact with me, telling me that I used to be a killer and he’ll kill us.”
Sunday’s assault occurred in the course of the Jewish vacation of Shavuot.
It comes nearly two weeks after the deadly capturing of two Israeli embassy staffers outdoors a Jewish museum in Washington, the place a 31-year-old suspect, who shouted “Free Palestine,” was arrested.
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon voiced outrage.
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“Terrorism in opposition to Jews doesn’t cease on the Gaza border — it’s already burning the streets of America,” he mentioned.
