2025 Boulder fire attack

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On June 1, 2025, in Boulder, Colorado, United States, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, an Egyptian man living in Colorado, used a makeshift flamethrower and Molotov cocktails to attack a group participating in a solidarity walk for the hostages taken from Israel during the October 7 attacks. The attack left at least seven people injured, including the perpetrator. An 82-year-old woman died 24 days later from injuries suffered during the attack. Soliman yelled several political expressions during the attack, and later stated in a police interview that he targeted the group because he believed they were Zionists. Soliman was charged with a dozen charges of federal hate crime and 118 state criminal charges. In May 2026, Soliman pleaded guilty to all state charges and was sentenced to life without parole plus 2,128 years in prison. In October 2026, Soliman changed his plea to guilty for a dozen federal charges that included a hate crime resulting in a death and seven counts of hate crimes causing bodily...

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