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Boulder Rally Attacker Indicted on Hate Crime and Terrorism Charges

Prosecutors say he spent more than a year planning the assault on a Jewish community gathering, making homemade flamethrowers as well as Molotov cocktails to carry out the attack.

Overview

  • The FBI classified the June 1 assault on a pro-Israel rally in Boulder as a targeted terrorist attack and opened a formal investigation.
  • Federal prosecutors allege that the 45-year-old suspect spent over a year planning the assault motivated by antisemitic hatred for what he called “the Zionist group.”
  • Six to twelve rally participants, aged between 52 and 88, suffered burn injuries and were hospitalized, with at least one victim in critical condition.
  • Mohamed Sabry Soliman, an Egyptian national with an expired tourist visa, was arrested at the scene and held without bail after authorities recovered 16 unused incendiary devices.
  • On June 2, he was indicted on federal hate crime, terrorism and attempted murder charges that carry maximum penalties of life imprisonment.