Mohamed Sabry Soliman had overstayed his visa when he launched an assault on contributors holding a vigil for hostages held by Hamas, shouting phrases comparable to “Free Palestine” and “Finish Zionists.”
Throughout interviews with legislation enforcement, he expressed a want to “kill all Zionist individuals” and acknowledged he would commit the act once more.
Clearly, permitting unlawful aliens into the nation who need to kill us is a horrible concept. We have to deport illegal aliens, terrorists, and their sympathizers.
“Acts of terrorism will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the legislation. That is yet one more instance of why we should hold our borders SECURE, and deport unlawful, anti-American radicals from our homeland. My coronary heart goes out to the victims of this horrible tragedy, and the good individuals of Boulder, Colorado!” — President Donald J. Trump
President Trump issued this assertion within the wake of a brutal terrorist assault that shook the town of Boulder, Colorado on Sunday, June 1, 2025.
Mohamed Sabry Soliman, a 45-year-old Egyptian nationwide who had overstayed his B-2 vacationer visa since February 2023, launched a firebomb assault throughout a peaceable pro-Israel march on the Pearl Road Mall.
The occasion, organized by the group Run for Their Lives, was meant to boost consciousness about Israeli hostages nonetheless held by Hamas.
Soliman reportedly used a makeshift flamethrower and Molotov cocktails, focusing on aged demonstrators and injuring 13 people between the ages of 52 and 88, together with an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor.
No less than one sufferer stays in important situation. The FBI has categorized the incident as a focused act of terrorism motivated by antisemitism. Soliman now faces a number of costs, together with tried mass homicide and a federal hate crime.
Based on courtroom paperwork, Soliman confessed to planning the assault for over a yr. He admitted he had sought to focus on “Zionist individuals” and expressed no regret, stating he would commit the act once more.
After being denied a firearm buy resulting from his immigration standing, Soliman reportedly used YouTube to learn to assemble home made incendiary weapons.
He now faces 16 counts of tried first-degree homicide (eight with intent and deliberation, eight with excessive indifference), two counts of utilizing an incendiary machine, 16 counts of tried use of an incendiary machine, and a federal hate crime cost.
He’s being held on a $10 million cash-only bond and is scheduled to look in courtroom Thursday for formal arraignment.
In response to the assault, Secretary of Homeland Safety Marco Rubio posted on X (previously Twitter):
“In mild of yesterday’s horrific assault, all terrorists, their relations, and terrorist sympathizers right here on a visa ought to know that beneath the Trump Administration we are going to discover you, revoke your visa, and deport you.”
The FBI has categorized the Boulder assault as a “focused act of violence” and is investigating it as an act of terrorism. Underneath FBI tips, terrorism falls into two essential classes.
Home terrorism is outlined as “violent, prison acts dedicated by people and/or teams to additional ideological objectives stemming from home influences, comparable to these of a political, non secular, social, racial, or environmental nature.”
Worldwide terrorism, in contrast, entails acts “dedicated by people and/or teams who’re impressed by, or related to, designated international terrorist organizations or nations (state-sponsored).”
These definitions are central to understanding how the June 1, 2025, firebomb assault in Boulder is being categorized.
Though Mohamed Sabry Soliman is a international nationwide, there isn’t any proof that he was performing on behalf of, or in coordination with, a chosen international terrorist group.
As an alternative, the deliberate focusing on of Jewish demonstrators, motivated by ideological and non secular hatred, makes this a textbook case of home terrorism beneath the FBI’s definition.
The FBI has famous that at the moment’s terrorism risk more and more comes from lone offenders who radicalize on-line and act independently, typically with out ties to formal organizations.
These people can quickly mobilize to violence, pushed by extremist beliefs and ideologies. Social media and on-line propaganda make this radicalization course of quicker and extra harmful, giving unhealthy actors unprecedented attain and affect.
The incident has sparked outrage and renewed scrutiny of immigration enforcement and border safety. President Donald Trump condemned the assault, calling it “horrific” and declaring it “WILL NOT BE TOLERATED in america of America.”
He linked the incident to harmful lapses in border coverage and emphasised the necessity to deport “Unlawful, Anti-American Radicals” and safe the nation’s borders. Trump additionally pointed to the assault as proof of the pressing want for stricter visa monitoring and deportation protocols.
Secretary Marco Rubio echoed this stance, highlighting the administration’s sharpened deal with nationwide safety, notably the place ideological violence intersects with illegal immigration.
Former Trump advisor Stephen Miller, writing within the New York Submit, known as President Biden’s immigration insurance policies “suicidal.”
In the meantime, Home Homeland Safety Committee Chairman Mark E. Inexperienced condemned the “heinous, antisemitic terrorist assault” and warned of a rising home terror risk, urging heightened vigilance in opposition to political violence and antisemitism.
