Man pleads guilty to federal hate crimes in Boulder firebombing

Summarised from 2 outlets · Updated 30 Oct, 08:27 · Archive

Mohamed Soliman has pleaded guilty to federal hate crimes for a June 2025 attack on a pro-Israel demonstration in Boulder, Colorado.

Mohamed Soliman, a 46-year-old Egyptian national from Colorado Springs, pleaded guilty in federal court on Thursday to nine hate crime charges and three explosives charges stemming from a firebombing attack on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder on 1 June 2025.

Soliman attacked attendees of a Run for Their Lives event, a group that gathered weekly to march in solidarity with Israelis held hostage by Hamas. He threw two Molotov cocktails at the group, killing one person and injuring more than a dozen others. According to prosecutors, he acted because of the victims' actual or perceived Israeli national origins and Jewish religion.

Soliman had previously pleaded guilty to more than 100 state charges in May, including first-degree murder, and received a life sentence without the possibility of parole plus 2,128 years in prison. The nine federal hate crime charges carry a maximum penalty of life in prison plus a $250,000 fine; the three explosives charges carry a maximum of 50 years each, consecutive to any other sentence, plus the same fine. He is scheduled to be sentenced on 7 January.

How it is being reported

• Man convicted of Colorado firebombing pleads guilty to hate crimesA 46-year-old man serving life in state prison for the June 2025 Boulder, Colo., firebombing of Jewish group pleads guilty to federal hate crimes.UPI · 30 Oct, 08:07
• Guilty plea on federal charges in deadly Boulder firebomb attackThe man who already pleaded guilty to more than 100 state criminal charges, including first-degree murder, for an attack on the Pearl Street Mall in June 2025, appeared in federal court on Thursday where he changed his plea to guilty on a dozen charges.CBS News · 29 Oct, 18:18

In this story: Mohamed Soliman · Boulder · Run for Their Lives · Hamas · Colorado Springs

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