Boulder fire attack suspect Soliman charged with federal hate crime

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Boulder fire attack suspect Soliman charged with federal hate crime

Mohamed Sabry Soliman, man accused of attacking a rally supporting Israeli hostages in Boulder, Colorado.

Obtained by NBC News

Federal prosecutors on Monday charged the suspect in the fire attack on demonstrators in Boulder, Colorado, with a charge of hate crime.

A criminal complaint filed against the suspect, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, said there is probable cause to believe he attacked the demonstrators on Sunday with a makeshift flamethrower because they were supporting Israel in calling for the release of hostages still being held by the ************ terror group ******.

Soliman, 45, is due to appear Monday afternoon in Boulder court to face state charges related to Sunday’s attack, which left eight people hospitalized with burns and other injuries. He is being held on a $10 million bail in that case.

He is charged in U.S. District Court in Colorado with hate crime involving actual or perceived race, religion or national origin. Prosecutors plan to ask a federal judge to detain Soliman in the federal case without bail.

An affidavit signed by an FBI agent says that Soliman threw “Molotov cocktails into a pro-Israel crowd while yelling ‘Free Palestine.’ “

The affidavit says that after he was detained by law enforcement, authorities found a ****** plastic container with a yellow top near the site of the arrest. In that container “were at least fourteen unlit Molotov cocktails, comprised of glass wine carafe bottles or Bell jars containing clear liquid and rec rags hanging out the bottles, the affidavit says. The liquid in those bottles, and a backpack weed sprayer also found nearby, as determined to be 87 octane gasoline, the agent wrote.

Shortly before the federal hate crime charge was revealed, President Donald Trump condemned the attack and blamed former President Joe Biden for a border policy that Trump said allowed entry to the accused assailant.

“Yesterday’s horrific attack in Boulder, Colorado, WILL NOT BE TOLERATED in the United States of America,” Trump wrote in a social media post.

Police and FBI agents gather, after an attack that injured multiple people, in Boulder, Colorado, U.S. June 1, 2025.

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“He came in through Biden’s ridiculous Open Border Policy, which has hurt our Country so badly,” Trump wrote. “He must go out under “TRUMP” Policy. Acts of Terrorism will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law.”

“This is yet another example of why we must keep our Borders SECURE, and deport ********, Anti-American Radicals from our Homeland. My heart goes out to the victims of this terrible tragedy, and the Great People of Boulder, Colorado!”

Solmani, who the White House says was in the United States illegally on an expired work permit, is accused of using a makeshift flamethrower on a group of people marching Sunday to protest the continued detention of Israeli hostages.

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