(Los Angeles) The alleged author of the recent attack in Colorado against a rally for the liberation of Israeli hostages in Gaza is targeted by twelve additional counts for anti -Semitic crime, the US Department of Justice announced on Wednesday.
The 1er June, Mohammed Sabry Soliman, a 45-year-old Egyptian, shocked the United States by launching Molotov cocktails during a march organized in Boulder (west), in support of the Israeli hostages retained by the Palestinian Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023. The attack had made 15 injured.
The government had very quickly announced to continue it to “crime motivated by hatred”, in order to “send the message that no act of anti-Semitism will be tolerated” in the United States.
Mr. Soliman, who stayed in the United States illegally, because his visa had expired, is already prosecuted by more than a hundred counts by the justice of Colorado and the American federal justice.
During his attack, the suspect shouted “release Palestine,” said the department, announcing the twelve additional federal counts on Wednesday.
According to the indictment, the investigators found an anti -Zionist manifesto in his car, which described Israel as a “cancer entity”.
During an interrogation, the suspect also considered that “whoever supports the existence of Israel on our land” is “Zionist”, and explained that he had “decided to take revenge on these people”.
According to the accusation, Mr. Soliman targeted the gathering of Boulder after having research on the Internet to find “Zionist” demonstrations.
The attack on Colorado was brandished as an example by Donald Trump to justify his decision to ban nationals from 12 countries from entering the United States to “protect” the country from “foreign terrorists”.
It took place less than two weeks after the death of two employees of the Israel Embassy, killed in front of a Jewish museum in Washington by a 31 -year -old suspect, who shouted a Propalestinian slogan during his arrest.
