Overview

• Mohamed Sabry Soliman appears today in Denver federal court for a preliminary hearing on a hate crime charge related to the June 1 Boulder attack
• Prosecutors plan to detail evidence that he plotted the assault for over a year and used Molotov cocktails and a makeshift flamethrower at a pro-Israel Run for Their Lives demonstration
• He faces a maximum life sentence on the federal hate crime count and state charges in Boulder including attempted murder and 118 other counts that could add up to over 672 years
• Soliman, 45, an Egyptian national living illegally in the U.S. since his tourist visa expired, told investigators he intended to kill “Zionist people” and had no regrets
• His wife and five children remain detained by ICE in Texas after their June 3 arrest, but a federal judge granted them temporary due process protections to halt their removal