BOULDER ATTACK SUSPED MUST THE FIRST SUPPURENT TRAIN THE FEDERAL TRIBUNAL

On Friday, the Ministry of Justice officially filed an accusation of federal hatred crime against a man suspected of having injured 15 people in a fire bomb attack on the Pearl Street Mall on Sunday.

“This vile anti -Semitic violence comes only a few weeks after the horrible murder of two young Jewish Americans in Washington DC,” said prosecutor General Pamela Bondi in a statement. “We will never tolerate this kind of hatred. We refuse to accept a world in which Jewish Americans are targeted for whom they are and what they believe.”

In the initial federal complaint filed on June 1, an agent ranked the attack as a hatred crime because the suspect seemed to target the group according to their “race, religion or national origin” by “throwing Molotov cocktails in a pro-Israeli crowd while shouting” free Palestine “.

Egyptian national Mohamed Sabry Soliman45, will be represented by public defenders David Kraut and Jennifer Beck while the case goes through the Federal Court. Friday afternoon, he was placed in pre-trial detention of American marshals and will appear on June 18 for his federal preliminary hearing.

Police said the suspect used a makeshift flame thrower and threw incendent devices on people participating in a weekly race for their demonstration on the Pearl Street shopping center. Several people caught fire, 15 were injured and three remain hospitalized, according to the authorities.

According to an arrest affidavit, the suspect told the police that he had specifically wanted what he considered as “Zionist” groups and provided for a year to target the Boulder organization, which welcomes a weekly march attracting attention to the remaining hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.

Those who were injured in the attack age of Sunday from 25 to 88 years. Eight are women and seven are men. A dog was also injured.

The federal accusation on hatred crimes leads to a 10 -year penalty behind bars and a fine of $ 250,000. If the federal judge concludes that there was an intention to kill in the attack, the accused could be sentenced to life.

His federal accusations are added to 118 State costswhich includes an attempted murder in the first degree with extreme intention and indifference, assault, use of an incendiary device, crimes of violence, cruelty to animals, etc. If he is convicted, each chief of attempted murder carries up to 48 years in prison, he faces 28 of them. The state legal process begins after the federal preliminary hearing on July 15 before the district court.