Hate crime charge for suspect in Colorado attack that injured 8 at Gaza hostage protest
A man accused of using a makeshift flame-thrower and an incendiary device to attack a group in Boulder, Colorado, that had gathered to bring attention to Israeli hostages in Gaza, has been charged with a federal hate crime, according to court documents filed Monday.
The suspect, 45-year-old Mohamed Sabry Soliman, was charged in the attack that injured eight people, some with burns, as a group was concluding their weekly demonstration to raise visibility for the hostages who remain in Gaza.
Authorities say
Soliman yelled 'Free Palestine' during the attack on Sunday, the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot. It came barely a week after a man who also yelled 'Free Palestine' was charged with fatally shooting two Israeli embassy staff members outside a Jewish museum in Washington.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) leaders immediately declared the attack an act of terrorism and the Justice Department denounced it as a 'needless act of violence, which follows recent attacks against Jewish Americans'.
Eight people were injured in the Sunday attack, some with burns.
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