Assailant pleads guilty to hate crimes in deadly antisemitic attack on US hostage rally – report

Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 46, pleaded guilty on Thursday to nine federal hate-crime counts and three explosives charges for a June 2025 firebombing at a hostage rally in Boulder, Colorado, that killed one person. He is already serving life for state murder charges. The plea deal recommends life plus 50 years.

Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 46, an Egyptian national, pleaded guilty on Thursday to federal hate-crime charges for a deadly antisemitic attack on a hostage rally in Boulder, Colorado, in June 2025. Soliman admitted to nine counts of hate-crime offenses and three explosives charges in federal court in Denver. He is already serving a life sentence for state charges, including first-degree murder. The plea deal asks for life in prison plus 50 years, with sentencing set for January 7. Soliman threw two Molotov cocktails at demonstrators supporting Israeli hostages, killing 82-year-old Karen Diamond and injuring others. He admitted targeting the demonstrators because of their real or perceived religion or national origin. The attack occurred amid heightened tensions following the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre and the subsequent war in Gaza.