AP – A federal judge said on Wednesday that the prosecutors can move forward on the charge of hatred against a man accused of throwing Molotov cocktails into a group of people who appear in Bulder, Colorado, to support Israeli hostages.
Muhammad Sabri Suleiman, 45, was represented in the Federal Court in Denver to attend a preliminary hearing in the wake of the June 1 attack in Bulder, who was at least eight people.
Investigators say he planned to attack for a year and was driven by a desire to “kill all Zionism.”
Defense lawyer in Suleiman, David Crott, urged Judge Catherine Starenilla not to allow the case to move forward. Kraut said that Suleiman’s anti-Zionist data and his search on the Internet about the “Zionist” event of the attack showed that he had targeted the demonstrators because of their concerted political opinions-their supposed support for the nation of Israel and the political movement of Zionism. A political viewpoint, which motivates a person political, is not considered a hate crime under federal law.
American lawyer Melissa Hindman said that the government claimed that the attack was a hate crime because Suleiman targeted people on the basis of their national origin – their concept depicted in Israel. General prosecutors do not claim that Suleiman targeted the demonstrators, who carried the Israeli and American flags, because he believed that they are Jews, indicating that he said that not all the Jews are from the Zionists.
Hindman said that Suleiman did not use the term Israel. But she indicated that he does not support his presence on what he called “our land”, which he knew as Palestine.
She said, “It targets Israel, and targets anyone who supports Israel’s presence on that land.”
Starlala admitted that some evidence undermines the government’s claim that the demonstrators were targeted by the imagined national origin, but they said other evidence supported it. At this stage, the government benefits from doubting questions about evidence.
Investigators say that Suleiman told them that he was intending to kill nearly 20 participants in the weekly demonstration in the Buller Perle Street Mall, but he threw only two of more than twenty of Molotov cocktails while he was screaming “Free Palestine.” Suleiman told the investigators that he tried to buy a weapon, but he was not able to do so because he was not a “legal citizen”.
The federal authorities say that Suleiman, an Egyptian citizen, lives in the United States illegally with his family.
During his appearance on Wednesday, the right arm of Suleiman and the hand was wrapped in a thick bandage, with handcuffs around his wrists. The police previously said that he was transferred to the hospital for unlimited injuries immediately after the attack. The FBI’s Undersecretary, Timothy Chan, witnessed in a session on Wednesday that Suleiman burned himself when he threw the Molotov II cocktail.
Chan said that Suleiman wrote “1187” with a sign of the shirt he was wearing during the attack, referring to the Sunnah of Jerusalem Muslims from the Christian Crusaders. The importance of that year and the battle in the documents in Suleiman’s car was also discussed.
The police wrote in the sin of arrest, Solomon did not make his full plan, “because he is afraid and no one had been injured before.”
One of the injured people suffered from burns more than 60 % of their body, as Chan witnessed. He said that an unspecified number of injured people are still in the hospital.
The authorities consider that 15 people and a dog as victims of the attack in the center of the center of Perl Perl Street. One is the survivor of the Holocaust. Some of them are victims because they could have been hurt.
Solomon was accused separately in the state court on multiple charges of attempting to kill, attack and crimes related to more than ten Moleotov cocktails, police say he was not used.
The group, which targeted the attack, which targeted the attack, began in October 2023 after Hamas fighters from the Gaza Strip stormed Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking 250 others as a hostage.
The suspect’s family requests help
The federal authorities seek to deport the wife of Suleiman and her five children. They are between 4 and 18 years old and are held at the Texas Immigration detention center, according to court documents.
The White House said at the social media publication on June 3 that one -way tickets were purchased for family members, adding: “Call the final rise soon.”
The Federal Kolurado judge temporarily prevented them from a restriction on June 4. The case has been transferred since then to Texas, where a federal judge extended on Wednesday an order to restrict two other weeks.
Family lawyers asked to keep the request in place, although government lawyers said in the court documents that the family will be deported in light of the normal operation, and not sooner because the lawyers did not address the previous comments from the White House.
In a statement on Wednesday, the wife of Suleiman, Heim Jamal, said that she and her children sent their love to many families suffering from the attack, but also urged the American people to think about their ordeal now. She focused on the problem that her children suffer from.
She wrote: “All they want is to be at home, to be in school, to have privacy, sleep in their own family, and make their mother make them a meal cooked at home, and help them sad and wander around these terrible weeks.”