“We are aware and we completely investigate a directed terrorist attack In Boulder, Colorado”, Wrote the official in the social network X.
“Our agents and local order forces are already in place, And we will share updates as there is more information available, ”he added.
The US president Donald Trump said Monday that the author of the attack perpetrated with A homemade flame In Colorado, which wounded eight people who participated in a Proisraelí demonstration, “entered the country thanks to the ridiculous policy of open borders of (Joe) Biden.”
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“Yesterday’s horrible attack in Boulder, Colorado, will not be tolerated in the United States. He entered the country thanks to the ridiculous policy of open borders of Bidenwhich has seriously harmed our country. Must go under the policy of Trump”, Wrote the president in his social network Truth Social.
“Acts of terrorism will be persecuted with all the rigor of the law. This is another example of why We must keep our borders safe and deport illegal radicals and antiestado units of our country. My deepest condolences to the victims of this terrible tragedy and the great town of Boulder, Colorado! ”, He concluded.
Although not many data on the author of the attack have been offered, a man named Mohamed Sabry Soliman, the vice -secretary of National Security, Tricia McLaughlin, has assured in X that the man, that some media have reported as Egyptian, He entered the United States in August 2022 with a tourist visa that expired more than two years ago.
According to different reports, requested asylum in September 2022.
The 45 -year -old man has been formally accused of a “hate crime involving race, religion or national origin, Real or perceived, ”according to the charges presented by the Boulder County authorities.
The author of the attack would have used a Homemade Lanfallpola and Molotov cocktails To attack a group of people who were gathered in a solidarity activity with the hostages that remain in the hands of Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
During the attack, Soliman shouted “Free Palestine!”according to the FBI, who investigates aggression as a “terrorist act.”
The attack left at least eight people injured: Four women and four men, between 52 and 88, who were transferred to hospitals in the Denver Metropolitan Area.
“This individual should have been deported”, Added White House spokeswoman, Karoline Leavitt, to the Fox News chain.
“Three years later, after reaching this country under the administration of Joe Biden, this person is burning Jews who simply tried to pay homage peacefully to the hostages in Israel ”said.
Since his return to power in January, Trump has committed himself to harden the country’s immigration policywhich includes large -scale deportations of migrants in an irregular situation.
The Colorado Terrorist Attack Suspect, Mohamed Soliman, Is Illegally in Our Country.
I have entered the country in august 2022 on a b2 visa that expired on february 2023. I was filled for asylum in sep af 2022. pic.twitter.com/1jd5ia9bcg
– Tricia McLaughlin (@Triciaohio) June 2, 2025