The suspect of Boulder Firbombing will appear in the Court of Colorado on Thursday, as a lawyer of his family, who is in detention of immigration and customs compliance, demands his release.
Mohamed Sabry Soliman, a 45 -year -old Egyptian citizen who legally entered the country in 2022, has a hearing of retaining charges in the Boulder County Court at 3:30 pm local time (5:30 pm et) in relation to the anti -Semitic attack of June 1 in Pearl Street Pedestrian Mall. This audience usually occurs before the preliminary audience or reading.
Soliman is accused of using an “makeshift flamethrower” and Molotov cocktails in a group of people who peacefully ask for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza.
The attack wounded at least 15 people, aged between 25 and 88, and a dog, prosecutors said in an update on Wednesday.
Soliman faces state positions of attempted first -degree murder after deliberation, attempted first -degree murder with extreme indifference, first degree assault, even against a victim at risk greater than 70 years and possession of a incendiary device.
Separately, Soliman was accused of a federal hate crime on Monday.
The White House announced on Tuesday that Soliman’s wife and five children were arrested as ice custody “for the extraction issued.” The Secretary of National Security, Kristi Noem, wrote in X that the department was investigating “to what extent” Soliman’s family knew about the attack or supported him.
A federal judge issued an order on Wednesday that prevented the deportation of the wife and children. They have not been accused in relation to the attack of Pearl Street.
Soliman is an Egyptian citizen who entered the country with a B2 visa, typically issued to tourists, in August 2022. The following month, he requested asylum before his family as dependents, according to the Department of National Security and Judicial Documents. While his visa expired in February 2023, Soliman had not yet exhausted all legal options to remain in the United States.
A lawyer from Soliman’s wife, Hayam El Gamal, told NBC News that she and her children are at Dilley’s family detention center in Texas.
“There are no precedents in the history of the United States for the type of family -based collective punishment that the Trump administration is distributing to this family,” said the lawyer, Eric Lee, Morgan Chesky from NBC.
“It is extremely dangerous, and it is something that should worry every person who is looking,” he added.
“You can imagine the shock that they were when they learned of the charges that were being presented against their father or husband, and suddenly to be taken out in the dark of the night, outside their native state of Colorado to a new place in a detention center, they curled up without any idea about whether they were going to be sent to a country from which they had requested the right to asylum,” he continued.
Lee said children include two 4 -year -old children, an 8 -year -old boy, a 15 -year -old boy and a 17 -year -old boy. Lee said the government said before that the eldest son is 18 years old, which is wrong.
He said he has sought relief from habeas to protect the family from being eliminated.
Lee said he has not had the opportunity to talk to the family in depth, since the calls were cut after a few minutes twice yesterday.
“One could only imagine what this family is happening. They have done absolutely nothing wrong,” he said.
