Attacker who firebombed a Jewish gathering in Colorado pleads guilty in federal court
Family said an 82-year-old who died after the attack suffered ‘indescribable pain’
An Egyptian man who firebombed demonstrators in Boulder last year has pleaded guilty to federal hate crime and other charges.
Mohamed Soliman is already serving life in prison after pleading guilty to state charges last spring in connection with the June 2025 attack. He yelled “Free Palestine!” and threw two Molotov cocktails at protesters who were marching in support of hostages taken in the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel.
Federal prosecutors accused Soliman of attacking the group because the demonstrators were Jewish. The flames badly burned Karen Diamond, 82, and injured a dozen others.
Diamond died three weeks later. Her family says she suffered “indescribable pain.”
The charges Soliman pleaded guilty to in federal court in Denver included nine counts of hate crimes, two of using fire or an explosive to commit a felony and one of carrying an explosive while committing a felony.
The charges are punishable by life in prison after federal prosecutors declined to seek the death penalty. Soliman is already serving a life sentence after pleading guilty to the state charges.