Wife of Boulder firebombing suspect begs Americans for help while judge delays deportation

The wife of accused Boulder, Colorado attacker and illegal Egyptian national Mohamed Sabry Soliman released her first public statement pleading for the American people’s help after a Texas US District Court judge on Wednesday ruled the family will be allowed to remain in the country pending deportation efforts. Soliman, 45, is accused of injuring more than a dozen people after throwing Molotov cocktails into a crowd of peaceful pro-Israel demonstrators, while yelling, “Free Palestine.”Following the attack, federal authorities detained Soliman’s wife, Hayem El Gamal, and five children, who lived about two hours away in Colorado Springs.A Colorado judge ruled last week that since El Gamal and the children were removed by federal officials and sent to Texas, any judicial relief had to come from a judge with jurisdiction. US District Court Judge Orlando Garcia, in San Antonio, issued a 14-day extension of the previously issued order prohibiting the family’s deportation.Following Garcia’s decision, El Gamal, through an attorney, released her first public statement regarding the case.“My five children and I are in total shock over what they sa[w] my husband d[o] in Boulder, Colorado earlier this month,” El Gamal wrote.“So many lives were ruined on that day.

There is never an excuse for hurting innocent people.We have been cooperating with the authorities, who are trying their best to get to the bottom of this.

We send our love to the many families who are suffering as a result of the attack.”She explained the aftermath of the attack from her perspective, detailing a late-night flight and stay at an immigration jail in Texas.“This includes my two four-year-old children, my seven-year-old, my fifteen-year-old, and my oldest daughter, who just turned eighteen in jail,” she wrote.“We are grieving, and we are suffering.

We are treated like animals by the officers, who told us we are being punished for what my husband is accused of doing.Bu...