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.