The attacker attacked the city of Boulder northwest of Jewish demonstrators on Sunday (local time), who took to the streets for the release of the Israeli hostages from the violence of Hamas in the Gaza Strip. According to the Federal Police FBI, he hurled self-made Molotow cocktails on people, sprayed them with petrol and roared “Free Palestine!” (Freedom for Palestine).
At least two of the twelve injuries were still in the hospital on Monday afternoon. According to the investigators, one of them is in mortal danger. At first the authorities had spoken of eight victims. These are four women and four men between the ages of 52 and 88.
US Justice Minister Pamela Bondi announced that the alleged perpetrator named Mohamed Sabry Soliman had to answer for a hate crime. The Ministry of Justice accused the 45-year-old an “anti-Semitic terrorist attack”.
The state of Colorado also accompanies Soliman murder. “We acted quickly to convey the message that no anti -Semitic act is tolerated and that this will result in serious consequences,” said the Attorney General of Colorado, Jay Bishop, at a press conference in Boulder.
According to the US media, the suspect arrested after the attack comes from Egypt. According to the government, the man spent an expired visa in the USA. According to Trump’s spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt, he came “in August 2022 with a visa that went in February 2023”. He is said to have applied for asylum in September 2022.
The Attorney General confirmed the FBI information that Soliman planned the attack for a year. As the reason for this, he “Hass” stated on the demonstrators that he “calls the Zionist group,” said Grewel after the first interrogations. “He explained that he wants them to die. He regrets nothing and would do it again,” said the Attorney General.
According to the FBI, investigators found at least 16 unused Molotow cocktails in the man. The authorities assume a single offender.
According to Grewel, Soliman had also tried to buy a firearm. However, he was not able to do this because he “has no legal residence status”.
Trump blamed his predecessor Joe Biden from the Democratic Party for the attack. The suspect came to the United States for bidges “ridiculous politics of open borders”, Trump explained. US Secretary of State Rubio threatened all “terrorists, their family members and sympathizers of terrorists” with deportation. The Trump government will “find her, pick up your visa and identify you,” wrote Rubio in the online service X. According to the US media, this could be the daughter of the suspect.
The minority leader of the Democrats in the US Senate, Chuck Schumer, pointed out that one of the victims should be a Holocaust survivor. Jews collective to blame for the events in the Middle East is “obviously anti -Semitic, and that is currently happening in too many corners of America,” criticized Schumer, who is a Jew himself. The Israeli government had previously spoken of an “anti -Semitic terrorist attack on Jews”.
The crime in Boulder occurred just two weeks after the fatal attack in front of the Jewish Museum in Washington, in which a man shot two employees of the Israeli embassy, a US citizen and a German-Israeli. Even then, the attacker had called “Free Palestine”. The crime had triggered horror internationally.
The blogger and Trump supporter Laura Loomer, known in the USA, meanwhile called for a new entry ban for Muslims in online service X. At the beginning of his first term in 2017, Trump imposed a temporary stop for people from seven Muslim countries – including Iran, Iraq and Syria. The decree caused protests and a long argument with the judiciary. In March of this year, the “New York Times”, the Trump government, reported new entry bans and a difficult visa award for a total of 43 countries.
