The Egyptian man accused of carrying out an antisemitic attack in Boulder, Colorado, appeared in court Friday afternoon on a federal hate crime charge related to the attack that left several people injured.
The court appearance comes a day after Mohamed Soliman, 45, was c harged with 28 counts of attempted murder after he allegedly used a makeshift flamethrower and Molotov cocktails to set people on fire during a downtown event held to support Israeli hostages in Gaza.
The firebombing attack occurred on the eve of Shavuot, a Jewish holiday. The attack, which happened less than two weeks after a separate antisemitic attack in Washington, DC, where two Israeli Embassy staff members were shot dead, has sparked widespread fear across the Jewish community.
Soliman arrived in court Frid