He is accused of a crime on the basis of hatred, a man arrested for an attack with a homemade flamethrower protesting in Colorado, who asked to release hostages in Hamas’s hands from October 7, 2023. This is confirmed by court documents submitted on this Monday, and those who had access to the Associated Press.
The suspect, 45, Muhammad Sabri Sliman, told the police that he had planned an attack for a year and that he chose as a goal that he called the Zionist Group, according to the FBI statement. As a result of the attack, eight people were injured, some burns when the group ended a weekly manifestation to request the appearance of hostages that follow in gas. Some witnesses said that a person shouted “Freedom for Palestine!” During the attack.
In the affide, the FBI guarantees that they confessed to the attack after the arrest on Sunday, and told the agents that he would do it again.
“Yesterday’s terrible attack in Boulder, Colorado, will not endure in the United States,” said US President Donald Trump, who accused Joe Biden, that the detainee processed all the weight of the law.
It is expected that on Monday he will appear before the state court in Boulder. Soliman, a native of Egypt, may encounter a fine in prison for up to ten years, although it is possible that additional charges are submitted.
The police discovered more than a dozen Molotov cocktails, not exploding near the place where they were arrested. According to the FBI, the artifacts consisted of glass bottles, such as water jugs full of transparent liquid and with protruding red rags. In a suspicious car, agents found documents with the words “Israel”, “Palestine” and “USAID”, as recorded in the indications under the oath.
Soliman told the researchers that Molotov cocktails made after watching the video on YouTube and buy the ingredients on their own. “He said that he planned an attack for a year and expected while his daughter would be graduation to fulfill it,” says the FBI document.
The attacked group explained that it manifested itself to make the situation of Israeli hostages left in Gaza visible.
As reported on the social network X Deputy Secretary of the National Security Department Trish Mclaflin, Soliman lived irregularly in the United States since his tourist visa (B2), with which he entered in August 2022, expired in February 2023. He asked Asylum in September 202 and received a work permit in March 2023, which was no longer on force.