The wife and all five children of Colorado terrorist suspect Mohamed Sabry Soliman have been arrested by federal immigration agents and will be swiftly deported, sources told The Post.
Soliman, 45 — an Egyptian national who is accused of injuring 12 people with a homemade flamethrower and Molotov cocktails during an antisemitic attack in Boulder — was living in the US illegally for two months after his legal status expired on March 28.
Following his arrest on Sunday, ICE and Homeland Security Investigation agents have taken his family into federal custody, a Department of Homeland Security official told the Post.
The relatives — who were stripped of their visa status — are currently being held at a Dilley detention facility in southern Texas, where officials intend to deport the family using expedited removal, sources told The Post.
Soliman, 45, arrived in the US in August 2022 on a tourist visa that permitted him to stay in the country until February 2023.
He then filed for work authorization that granted him legal status until March of this year. His asylum request was still pending at the time of the attack.
Soliman allegedly told police he waited until his daughter graduated high school to carry out the attack.
He penned messages to his wife and five children and hid them in a desk drawer before carrying out the attack 100 miles away from his Colorado Springs home, police said.
The suspect allegedly told police he hated Jewish people and wanted to “kill all Zionist people” as he targeted participants of the Run For Their Lives event, which was organized to show solidarity for the Israeli hostages in Gaza.
Soliman reportedly shouted, “Free Palestine!,” as he sprayed members of the group with 87 octane gasoline from a garden hose he had fashioned into a makeshift flamethrower.
Of the 12 people injured, eight victims — four men and four women between the ages of 52 and 88 — were transported to nearby hospitals for treatment.
Soliman remains in custody and is charged with federal hate crimes and 16 counts of attempted first-degree murder. He faces up to 624 years behind bars if convicted.
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