Tag: Mohamed Soliman
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CU Regents approve 2026-27 budget, denounce student comments on Boulder attack anniversary
The University of Colorado system’s Board of Regents approved its $6.84 billion budget for the 2026-27 fiscal year and denounced recent student comments on last year’s firebombing in Boulder during its regular meeting on Thursday. An increase from last year’s $6.7 billion budget, total allocations include $369.9 million for the Colorado Springs campus, $2.54 billion…
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Public defender: Boulder firebomber’s federal case in possible jeopardy if family is deported
DENVER — As one side of the federal government pushes for the deportation of the El Gamal family, its judicial branch is raising concerns of how that could impact the Boulder firebomber’s federal hate crime case. Attorneys on both sides of Mohamed Soliman’s federal case gathered at the Alfred A. Arraj U.S. Courthouse on Friday…
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Boulder firebomb attack suspect expected to plead guilty, get more than 400 years in prison
The suspect in the Boulder firebomb attack that killed a person and injured 29 others is scheduled to plead guilty and get more than 400 years in prison Thursday. Mohamed Soliman, 46, is accused of throwing two Molotov cocktails into a crowd of protesters on Pearl Street Mall in Boulder on June 1, 2025. Karen…
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El Gamal family taken back into ICE custody days after being released
The El Gamals, a Colorado Springs-area family who were released from a Texas immigration facility following a federal judge’s order on Thursday, were detained again by federal agents and put on a private jet in Denver bound for Egypt, attorneys for the family said Saturday. As of early Saturday evening, it was unclear whether Hayam…
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Judge urges Colorado Springs family of suspected Boulder firebomber be released from ICE facility
A federal magistrate on Monday recommended the release of a Colorado Springs-area mother and her five children, who have been detained at a Texas immigration detention center for nearly a year. They’ve been held after the children’s father was arrested in June on suspicion of being responsible for an antisemitic firebombing attack in Boulder. U.S.…
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Attorney for Colorado Springs family of Boulder bomb attack suspect demands they be released from ICE custody
By Brett Forrest, KOAA An attorney for the family of Boulder’s Pearl Street attack suspect is demanding the release of the family from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, where they’ve been held for four months. Mohamed Soliman was arrested after throwing makeshift Molotov cocktails, or firebombs, at peaceful demonstrators on Boulder’s popular Pearl Street…
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Boulder attack suspect pleads not guilty to federal hate crime charges
Mohamed Soliman faces 12 federal hate crime charges plus the 118 state charges in connection with the June 1 attack on a group of peaceful protestors in Boulder
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DHS disputes statements by Boulder attack suspect’s wife
Two days after the wife of Mohamed Soliman, the man facing a hate crime charge after the June 1 firebomb attack in Boulder, released a statement pleading with the American public for help, the Department of Homeland Security issued a statement calling her allegations as “false.” Hayam El Gamal and her five children have been detained…
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Judge sides with family of Boulder attack suspect
A federal judge in Denver on Thursday ruled that the deportation case for the wife and five children of Mohamed Soliman, charged with a hate crime after the June 1 firebomb attack on marchers in Boulder, will be heard in the Western District of Texas, not Colorado. U.S. District Judge Gordon P. Gallagher of Colorado on…
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Federal judge rules to halt deportation of Boulder attack suspect’s family
Editor’s note: an earlier version of this story mistakenly identified attorney Susanna Dvortsin as a family friend to Soliman’s wife. The wife and five children of an Egyptian man charged with a hate crime after an fire-involved attack in Boulder over the weekend were headed for deportation Wednesday until a lawsuit filed on behalf of the family…