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<\/a><\/p>\nPolice tactical teams maintain watch over the Boulder Jewish Festival on June 8, 2025 in Boulder, Colorado. (Chet Strange\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Mohamed Sabry Soliman, an Egyptian national who was arrested at the scene of the attack on the demonstrators last June, pleaded guilty to 101 charges, including 52 counts of attempted murder and one count of murder for the death of Karen Diamond, an 82-year-old victim of the attack who later died of her wounds.<\/p>\n
During the June attack, Soliman shouted \u201cfree Palestine\u201d and threw two molotov cocktails at the group, Run for Their Lives, injuring over a dozen people. According to an earlier court filing, Soliman said that he had staged the attack, which prosecutors said he planned for a year, because he \u201cwanted to kill all Zionist people and wished they were all dead.\u201d<\/p>\n
Soliman has separately pleaded not guilty to federal hate crime charges, for which prosecutors could potentially seek the death penalty.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I went back, I would not have done this as this is not according to the teaching of Islam,\u201d Soliman said during the sentencing hearing, adding that he wanted federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty. \u201cWhat I did came out of myself and only myself.\u201d<\/p>\n
During his remarks, Soliman argued that he had not been driven by anti-Jewish animus. He later said that Zionism was \u201cthe enemy\u201d and that it was his \u201cright\u201d to be against Israel.<\/p>\n
Chief District Judge Nancy W. Salomone rejected Mr. Soliman\u2019s arguments, telling him that his \u201cchoices were acts of terror, and they victimized an entire community,\u201d according to the New York Times.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou chose to victimize these people because they were members of the Jewish community,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
In a statement read earlier in court by a prosecutor, Diamond\u2019s sons, Andrew and Ethan Diamond, asked that Soliman not be allowed to see his family again \u201csince he is responsible for our mother never seeing her family again,\u201d according to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n
They said that Diamond had suffered \u201cindescribable pain\u201d for over three weeks before her death, adding that \u201cin those weeks, we learned the full meaning of the expressions \u2018living hell\u2019 and \u2018fate worse than death.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n