The terrorist who attacked peaceable pro-Israel protestors with a makeshift flamethrower in Colorado on Sunday has been recognized as an ‘unlawful alien‘.
Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, allegedly injured six individuals aged between 67 and 88, setting not less than one ablaze, at an illustration honoring the October 7 victims who’re nonetheless being held hostage by Hamas militants in Gaza.
Boulder Police mentioned the horror unfolded through the occasion organized by Run For Their Lives on Pearl Road Mall within the metropolis’s downtown simply earlier than 1.30pm native time on Sunday, the primary day of a Jewish vacation known as Shavuot.
FBI Director Kash Patel known as the incident a ‘terror assault’ whereas Colorado Lawyer Common Phil Weiser mentioned it ‘seems to be a hate crime given the group that was focused’.
Stunning footage from the scene confirmed a number of victims laying immobile on the bottom beside Israel flags as witnesses rushed to pour water on their wounds.
Soliman appeared to taunt the victims whereas brandishing bottles of alcohol for the Molotov cocktails in every hand as smoke rose from the scene.
Sporting solely denims and sun shades, he yelled: ‘Finish Zionists… they’re terrorists’ and ‘free Palestine’. He additionally mentioned: ‘What number of youngsters have you ever killed?’ in response to the ADL Middle on Extremism.
White Home Deputy Chief of Employees Stephen Miller mentioned Soliman is an ‘unlawful alien’ who arrived within the US on a visa issued by the Biden administration. When he illegally overstayed that visa, he was given a second probability and issued a brand new work allow.
Soliman is from Egypt, in response to Fox Information.
Mohamed Sabry Soliman (pictured), 45, attacked demonstrators as they gathered to recollect the October 7 victims who’re nonetheless being held hostage by Hamas militants in Gaza
Six individuals have been injured after a screaming shirtless man hurled Molotov cocktails at them throughout a peaceable pro-Israel rally in Boulder, Colorado
Stunning video and pictures from the scene confirmed a number of victims laying immobile on the bottom beside Israel flags as witnesses rushed to pour water on their wounds
FBI Director Kash Patel tweeted concerning the incident simply after 5.20pm
Disturbing footage of Soliman’s assault confirmed EMTs used stretchers to maneuver individuals into ambulances whereas flames unfold in patches throughout the bottom.
One other video confirmed what regarded like a burn scar throughout the bottom near town’s previous courthouse. Blackened burned-out bottles littered the scene.
Boulder Police Chief Steve Redfearn advised a press convention that victims suffered ‘accidents according to burns, and different accidents’ and that wounds ranged from ‘minor’ to ‘probably life-threatening’.
Legislation enforcement advised NBC simply earlier than 8pm that one particular person was in a crucial situation.
Mark Michalek, the particular agent in command of the FBI’s Denver subject workplace, advised one other press convention afterward Sunday that witnesses mentioned Soliman used ‘a makeshift flamethrower and threw an incendiary gadget into the gang’.
FBI Director Kash Patel known as the incident ‘a focused terror assault’.
‘Our brokers and native regulation enforcement are on the scene already, and we are going to share updates as extra info turns into out there,’ Patel wrote on X.
Boulder Police mentioned they had been evacuating a number of blocks of the sometimes widespread pedestrian mall space.
Chief Redfearn added that Soliman was taken into custody ‘with out incident’.
Soliman, who was carrying sun shades and denims with no shirt when he was detained, was additionally taken to the hospital with ‘minor accidents’.
Chief Redfearn didn’t disclose the motivation behind the assault. ‘It will be irresponsible for me to invest on motive this early on,’ he mentioned.
Boulder Police had been additionally initially cut up with the FBI on whether or not to name the incident a terror assault, with Redfearn saying it was too early to outline the incident.
Soliman appeared to taunt the victims whereas brandishing bottles of alcohol for the Molotov cocktails in every hand as smoke rose from the scene
A number of individuals have been injured in a ‘focused terror assault’ involving Molotov cocktails in Boulder, Colorado
Pictured: Legislation enforcement officers examine after an assault on the Pearl Road Mall Sunday, June 1, 2025, in downtown Boulder, Colorado
‘My ideas are with these injured and impacted by at this time’s assault towards a bunch that meets weekly on Boulder’s Pearl Road Mall to name for the discharge of the hostages in Gaza,’ Lawyer Common Phil Weiser mentioned in an announcement.
‘From what we all know, this assault seems to be a hate crime given the group that was focused.’
‘Individuals might have differing views about world occasions and the Israeli-Hamas battle, however violence isn’t the reply to settling variations,’ he added.
‘Hate has no place in Colorado. All of us have the precise to peaceably assemble and the liberty to talk our views.
‘However these violent acts—which have gotten extra frequent, brazen and nearer to residence—should cease and people who commit these horrific acts should be absolutely held to account.’
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino known as the incident ‘an act of terror and focused violence’.
‘All the mandatory property can be devoted to this investigation. When you’ve got any investigative ideas please contact the FBI. And in the event you aided or abetted this assault, we are going to discover you. You can’t conceal,’ he wrote on X.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis mentioned in an announcement that he was ‘intently monitoring’ the state of affairs, including that ‘hate-filled acts of any type are unacceptable.’
Pictured: Smoke rising from the scene of the fear assault in Boulder on Sunday afternoon
Extra photos confirmed cops arresting a shirtless man on the scene, Pearl Road Mall in Boulder
Police and the FBI mentioned the horror unfolded at Pearl Road Mall on Sunday afternoon
Demonstrators met at 1pm at Pearl Road and eighth Road in downtown Boulder to stroll the size of Pearl Road Mall.
The weekly occasion attracts consideration to the 58 Israeli individuals who have been held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza since October 7, 2023.
‘This isn’t a protest; it’s a peaceable stroll to point out solidarity with the hostages and their households, and a plea for his or her launch,’ Run For Their Lives mentioned in an announcement.
Eyewitness Brooke Coffman mentioned she noticed ‘a giant fireplace go up’ on the scene, prompting her to name 911.
Coffman advised NBC she noticed two girls ‘rolling round just a little bit’ of their underwear after having stripped out of their burning garments with ‘actually unhealthy burns all up on their legs.’
One other lady close by screamed as she suffered with burns on her legs. Coffman mentioned one sufferer had her hair fully singed off.
California vacationer Alex Osante was consuming at an Italian restaurant off Boulder’s famed Pearl Road pedestrian mall when he heard a ‘large increase’ and noticed a lady ‘on fireplace from head to toe on fireplace.’
Eyewitness Brooke Coffman mentioned she noticed ‘a giant fireplace go up’ on the scene, prompting her to name 911. (Pictured: Police detaining the suspect on the scene)
Six individuals have been injured after a screaming shirtless man hurled Molotov cocktails at them throughout a peaceable pro-Israel rally in Boulder, Colorado
‘Individuals had been screaming and yelling … tripping over one another,’ Osante advised the Every day Mail.
‘The terrorist had a Molotov cocktail in his hand. He had two different bottles, and he threw a bottle on the group, and a girl caught on fireplace from head to toe. She was absolutely immersed in fireplace.
‘After which the opposite few individuals, possibly 4 others, had been additionally on fireplace – however not as unhealthy.’
Police have requested residents to keep away from the stretch of Pearl Road between Walnut and Pine as they proceed to analyze.
They later urged individuals to cease flying helicopters over the scene because of the plane disrupting their drone response.
The Boulder assault occurred as regulation enforcement authorities within the US grapple with a pointy spike in antisemitic violence.
It comes simply over every week after a person was arrested over the deadly taking pictures of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, DC on Could 22.
The victims had been recognized as German-Israeli twin nationwide Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and his girlfriend Sarah Milgrim, 26.
Lischinsky had been planning to suggest to Milgrim after shopping for a hoop.
The suspect, 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez, repeatedly shouted ‘Free Palestine’ after taking pictures them useless, as police dragged him away.
It comes simply over every week after a person was arrested over the deadly taking pictures of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, DC on Could 22. The victims had been recognized as German-Israeli twin nationwide Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and his girlfriend Sarah Milgrim, 26, pictured collectively
Jewish human rights group the Simon Wiesenthal Middle mentioned the Boulder assault got here on the eve of a spiritual vacation.
‘On the eve of Shavuot, a sacred celebration of Jewish id and custom, we’re compelled but once more to confront a horrifying actuality: Being Jewish, supporting Israel, or just gathering as a neighborhood now makes American Jews a goal,’ the middle’s CEO Jim Berk mentioned.
‘This afternoon in Boulder, Colorado, a person threw a Molotov cocktail right into a peaceable solidarity stroll calling for the discharge of 58 hostages nonetheless held by Hamas, a humanitarian trigger that ought to unite, not divide.’
He blamed the assault, in addition to the murders of the Israeli embassy staffers, on ‘months of anti-Israel propaganda, ethical equivocation, and silence within the face of raging antisemitism’.
‘The nonstop demonization of Israel and Zionism on our campuses, in our streets, and throughout digital platforms has created a local weather the place hate prospers, and bodily assaults—even homicide—of Jews is inevitable,’ Berk mentioned.
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