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02 Jun, 2025
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Boulder, Colorado, firebomb madman hit with hate crime charges, said he plotted antisemitic attack on peaceful marchers for a year: feds
@Source: nypost.com
The suspect in Colorado’s horrific antisemitic firebombing planned the attack for more than a year and admitted to cops he wanted to kill Jews, the feds said Monday — as they hit him with hate-crime charges. Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, who was in the US illegally after overstaying his visitor’s visa by more than two years, disguised himself as a landscaper and held a lighter in front of a garden hose filled with gasoline to spray flames at the victims before lobbing a pair of Molotov cocktails, a source told The Post on Monday. Video taken as the attack unfolded in Boulder showed a bare-chested Soliman brandishing the incendiary devices — he had removed his shirt when it caught fire as he wielded his homemade flamethrower. Court documents reveal investigators found a black container containing 14 more Molotov cocktails, made from Ball jars with red rags as fuses. The jars contained a clear liquid, later confirmed to be 87 octane gasoline. Documents with the words “Israel,” “Palestine” and “USAID” were also in his vehicle, the documents state.The eight victims in the attack, four men and four women ranging in age from 52 to 88, were participating in a solidarity march in support of Israeli hostages still in Hamas’ hands when Soliman allegedly ambushed the group at one of their scheduled stops, yelling “Free Palestine” as he unleashed the fiery assault, cops said. The victims were all transported to local hospitals, with one in critical condition. Soliman was also injured and brought to a hospital for treatment after he was taken into custody. According to court documents obtained by Fox News, Soliman told investigators that he wanted to kill “Zionist” people and said he would launch the attack again if given the opportunity. He also allegedly said he held off on committing the onslaught until his daughter had graduated from high school, and that he learned of the pro-Israel group from online searches. A mugshot later released by the Boulder Police Department shows the deranged man wearing a large bandage over his right ear and appearing to have scorch marks on his face. The White House called the sickening act of violence “an antisemitic terror attack,” and the FBI said it’s treating the attack as a “targeted act of terrorism.” However Boulder’s woke Police Chief Stephen Redfearn — who promised to emphasize “equitable” policing when he became chief last year, stopped short of calling the incident terrorism, urging, “Now is not the time to be divisive” in a press conference. Soliman first entered the US through Los Angeles International Airport on a B2 visa on Aug. 27, 2022, sources told The Post and fox News. Such visas are given to people who are supposed to be temporarily visiting the country for such things as tourism and to visit family and friends. Soliman’s visitor’s visa expired in February 2023, sources told The Post. He applied for asylum in September 2022, sources said, but his request was not yet granted by the time his temporary visa expired.
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