The wife of the accused Boulder, Colorado attacker, an illegal Egyptian national named Mohamed Sabry Soliman, has made her first public appeal asking for assistance from the American public. This comes after a Texas U.S. District Court judge decided on Wednesday that the family could stay in the country while deportation processes are underway.
Soliman, 45, allegedly injured more than twelve individuals by throwing Molotov cocktails at a group of peaceful pro-Israel supporters, while shouting “Free Palestine.” After this attack, federal authorities detained Soliman’s wife, Hayem El Gamal, along with their five children, who resided approximately two hours away in Colorado Springs.
A recent ruling by a Colorado judge stated that since El Gamal and her children were taken by federal officials and transported to Texas, any legal intervention must be sought from a judge within that jurisdiction.
U.S. District Court Judge Orlando Garcia, in San Antonio, issued a 14-day extension of the previously issued order prohibiting the family’s deportation.
Mohamed Sabry Soliman is now facing multiple charges following the incident in Boulder, Colorado, on Sunday, June 1. (Boulder Police Dpt.)
The reference to neighbors practicing other religions comes weeks after Fox News Digital interviewed an observant Jewish family who recently moved into the same neighborhood as the suspect’s family.
In the days following the attack, David and Rivkah Costello described the horror of finding out that their neighbor had been charged in connection to the alleged hate crime.
Mohamed Soliman’s Colorado Springs home. (Jeremy Sparig for Fox News Digital)
As the couple unpacked boxes, they said El Gamal showed up at their door, adorned with a mezuzah, offering cupcakes to welcome them to the neighborhood.
“All I want is to give my children good lives,” El Gamal continued in statement. “My oldest daughter volunteered at a hospital; she has a 4.5 GPA and wants to become a doctor, to help people in this country. My kids want to go to school, they want to see their friends and deal with their grief from recent weeks. But here they can’t sleep. They cry throughout the day, asking me, ‘When will we get to go home?’”
She claimed when they were first detained, her children were “forced” to watch officials “rough-up” another detainee, adding they lacked privacy and decent meals.
“Only mothers can truly understand what we are going through,” El Gamal wrote. “I did everything for my kids. It has been two weeks in jail, how much longer will we be here for something we didn’t do? How much longer until the damage to my children is irreversible? It has been so hard for me to stay strong for my kids. I’m so tired. I ask the American people, with all my heart, to please listen to our story and help us.”
