Boulder, Colorado. A federal judge issued an order on Wednesday to avoid the deportation of the wife and five children of an Egyptian man accused in the attack of fire bombs in Boulder, Colorado.
The American District Judge Gordon P. Gallagher granted a request from Mohamed Sabry’s family to stop the deportation procedures of his wife and five children who were arrested Tuesday by immigration officials in the United States.
Family members have not been accused in the attack against a group that is demonstrated for the launch of Israeli hostages in Gaza. Soliman faces federal charges of hate crimes and state charges of murder attempt in Sunday attack in the center of Boulder.
The Secretary of National Security of the United States, Kristi Noem, said Wednesday that they are being processed for elimination procedures. It is rare for the family members of a person accused of a crime to be arrested and threatened with deportation.
Soliman’s wife, 18 -year -old daughter, two minor sons and two minor daughters are Egyptian citizens, said the National Security Department in a statement.
“We are investigating to what extent his family knew about this atrocious attack, if they were aware of it, or if they gave him support,” Noem said in a statement.
Noem also said that federal authorities will immediately take energetic measures against people who exceed their visas in response to Boulder’s attack.
Soliman told the authorities that no one, including his family, knew about his planned attack, according to judicial documents that sometimes spell their name as “Muhammad.”
Earlier on Wednesday, the authorities increased the number of victims in the attack of 12 to 15, plus a dog.
Boulder County officials who provided the update said in a press release that the victims include eight women and seven men who are between 25 and 88 years old. Associated Press sent an email to prosecutors who were looking for more details about newly identified victims and the dog on Wednesday.
Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, had planned to kill the approximately 20 participants in Sunday’s demonstration in the popular Mall Pearl Street Pedestrian, but launched only two of its 18 Molotov cocktails while shouting “free Palestine,” the police said. Soliman, an Egyptian man who, according to federal authorities, has been living in the United States illegally, did not carry out his full plan “because he was scared and never before damaged anyone,” police wrote in a sworn statement.
According to an affidavit of the FBI, Soliman told the Police that he was promoted by a desire to “kill all Zionists”, a reference to the movement to establish and protect a Jewish state in Israel. The authorities said he did not express remorse for the attack.
A vigil is scheduled for Wednesday night at the local Jewish community center.
Soliman was born in El-Mamedia, an Egyptian agricultural village in the province of the Delta del Nilo de Gharbia, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) north of Cairo, according to an Egyptian security official who spoke under condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak with the media.
Before moving to Colorado Springs three years ago, Soliman spent 17 years in Kuwait, according to judicial documents.
Soliman arrived in the United States in August 2022 with a tourist visa that expired in February 2023, said the assistant secretary of National Security Security, Tricia McLaughlin, in a position on X. She said that Soliman requested asylum in September 2022 and was awarded a work authorization in March 2023, but that has also expired.
Hundreds of thousands of people exceed their visas every year in the United States, according to reports from the Department of National Security.
