One person arrested after attack outside Boulder County Historic Courthouse during pro-Israel demonstration
Six people were burned, some severely, in an attack on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall during a vigil that called on Hamas to release Israeli hostages.
Mark Michalek, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Denver field office, characterized the incident as a “targeted act of violence” and said it’s under investigation as terrorism in a Sunday evening news briefing, echoing a statement from FBI Director Kash Patel earlier that day.
The six victims were between the ages of 67 and 88, Michalek said. Four were taken to the Boulder Community Health hospital and two were airlifted to the University of Colorado’s burn unit in Aurora with more severe injuries.
Mohamed Sabry Soliman, a 45-year-old man whom bystanders pointed out to police officers outside the Boulder County Historic Courthouse, was arrested, Michalek said.
Soliman used a makeshift flamethrower and threw incendiary devices into the crowd gathered outside the courthouse to harm them, Michalek said.
According to Fox news reporter Bill Melugin, three DHS sources said that the Boulder terror suspect is an Egyptian national in the U.S. illegally as a visa overstay who entered the U.S. during the Biden administration.
According to the report, Mohamed Sabry Soliman arrived at LAX on 8/27/22 on a B1/B2 nonimmigrant visa with an authorized stay through 2/26/23, but he overstayed & never left.
Then, on 9/29/22, he filed some sort of claim with USCIS, potentially an asylum claim, and on 3/29/23, USCIS under the Biden admin gave him work authorization, which expired on 3/28/25.
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June 01, 2025, 08:48 PM
Pipe Smoker
I hope Soliman gets a thirty year sentence for this.
Serious about crackers.
June 01, 2025, 08:54 PM
wcb6092
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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker: I hope Soliman gets a thirty year sentence for this.
Deport him to Israel. Problem solved.
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June 01, 2025, 09:45 PM
chellim1
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the Boulder terror suspect is an Egyptian national in the U.S. illegally as a visa overstay who entered the U.S. during the Biden administration.
Egypt is a huge part of the problem. Egypt should be forced to take everyone from Gaza, which is where most of them originated.
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June 01, 2025, 09:46 PM
hrcjon
Pretty tough to describe that as a flame thrower. Doesn't anyone in Bolder own a gun?
“So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak.”
June 01, 2025, 09:54 PM
snoris
It's Colorado. Soliman will probably work his way onto the ballot for the next Boulder City Council election and get a fair number of votes.
June 02, 2025, 12:15 AM
Green Highlander
It’s infuriating watching news pundits saying his motive was unknown. Holy hell, he’s yelling “Free Palestine” while throwing Molotov cocktails at a Jewish march. Sounds like we need a modern day Sherlock Holmes to figure out why he did it.
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June 02, 2025, 01:06 AM
12131
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Originally posted by Green Highlander: It’s infuriating watching news pundits saying his motive was unknown...
They’re America hating leftists. So, par for the course with them.
Originally posted by Pipe Smoker: I hope Soliman gets a thirty year sentence for this.
Deport him to Israel. Problem solved.
They don’t have the death sentence. So he can stay right here where the crime occurred and be tried under our laws.
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June 02, 2025, 07:41 AM
TMats
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Originally posted by MikeinNC:
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Originally posted by wcb6092:
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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker: I hope Soliman gets a thirty year sentence for this.
Deport him to Israel. Problem solved.
They don’t have the death sentence. So he can stay right here where the crime occurred and be tried under our laws.
Probably worth talking to Egypt about him. I don’t think they like the idea of one of their citizens fire bombing a peaceful demonstration. They might have an idea or two about trial and punishment.
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June 02, 2025, 07:51 AM
ruger357
The only way to deal with these animals is to kill them all. No ceasefire, no peace talks. Wipe them off the planet.
An illegal immigrant radical muslim who sets people on fire. Trifecta from hell.
Three kinds of muslims exist: - Reform: those that don't take the koran seriously. They might be able to coexist with the West. - Radical: they want to murder us. - Moderate: they want the radicals to murder us.
Out of 1.6 billion muslims, one-fifth of the planet's population, how many can truly coexist with the west? And the left in this country wonder why we want to carefully vet people coming into the country.
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June 02, 2025, 09:06 AM
Gustofer
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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker: I hope Soliman gets a thirty year sentence for this.
I hope he gets put down. Quickly.
These things continue to happen only because there are no consequences. Anyone who's raised a child or a dog knows that piss poor behavior will continue and progress unless and until there is punishment for said behavior. That punishment needs to be severe and rapid. Enough with the umpteen appeals and the waiting three years for a trial. Within a week this animal needs to be in front of a jury and the trial should last no longer than a day or two.
Look at Mangione. Committed murder on camera last December. His trial date won't be until 2026 if we're lucky. Ridiculous. He should be decomposing by now.
This animal confessed. His crime is on camera. Put him down. Yesterday.
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June 02, 2025, 11:10 AM
YooperSigs
Hmmm... I believe if I encountered the dude holding Molotov Cocktails in both hands, I may have just gone ahead and plinked him. Probably not a socially acceptable thing to do in Boulder, though!
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June 02, 2025, 11:31 AM
V-Tail
Boulder. That's all you need to know. (I lived in Arvada, not far from Boulder, for two years during the mid 1980s. Back then we called them a bunch a hippie flower children. Today we would describe them as "woke.")
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June 02, 2025, 11:37 AM
oddball
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Originally posted by Infidel: An illegal immigrant radical muslim who sets people on fire. Trifecta from hell.
And of course he is a supporter of Palestine/Hamas and anti-Israel. He is a pure product of the Democrat Party, it is no exaggeration that they created this guy and situation.
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June 02, 2025, 05:35 PM
jsbcody
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Originally posted by oddball:
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Originally posted by Infidel: An illegal immigrant radical muslim who sets people on fire. Trifecta from hell.
And of course he is a supporter of Palestine/Hamas and anti-Israel. He is a pure product of the Democrat Party, it is no exaggeration that they created this guy and situation.
Yes they did. They created the world and conditions that allow animals like this amongst us. No way sending his ass to Israel, he would be released to Hamas as part of the prisoner exchange deals. In fact, I bet Hamas will put that on their "demands".