U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) Kristi Noem testifies before the House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee hearing on oversight of the Department of Homeland Security, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 6, 2025.
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Federal agents on Tuesday took into custody the family of Mohamed Soliman, the man accused of attempted murder in the fire attack on demonstrators in Colorado, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a social media post.
Noem said that authorities are investigating whether Soliman’s family knew about or supported Sunday’s attack by the 45-year-old Egyptian national in Boulder on a group calling for the release of Israeli hostages by the terror group Hamas.
Soliman is married with five children.
“Today, @DHSgov and @ICEGov are taking the family of suspected Boulder, Colorado terrorist, and illegal alien, Mohamed Soliman, into ICE custody,” Noem said in her post on X.
“This terrorist will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. We are investigating to what extent his family knew about this heinous attack, if they had knowledge of it, or if they provided support to it,” Noem wrote.
“I am continuing to pray for the victims of this attack and their families. Justice will be served.”
Boulder attack suspect Mohamed Sabry Soliman poses for a jail booking photograph after his arrest in Boulder, Colorado, U.S. June 2, 2025. Boulder Police Department/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY
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Court documents say that Soliman told authorities had had plotted Sunday’s attack for a year, and that he waited to execute it until after his daughter graduate from school.
Soliman allegedly yelled, “Free Palestine!” when he attacked the demonstrators with a makeshift flamethrower and Molotov cocktails, sending eight of them to the hospital with burns.
He is charged in state court with multiple counts of attempted murder, assault and possession of an incendiary device.
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