US judge orders release of family of Egyptian attack suspect

HOUSTON: A US federal judge on Thursday ordered the immediate release of the family of an Egyptian man accused in a firebomb attack on a Jewish protest march in Colorado last year.
The mother Hayam El Gamal and her five children aged between five and 18 years have been held for the past 10 months at an immigrant family detention center in Dilley, Texas.
Federal district judge Fred Biery endorsed a recommendation by a magistrate judge to release the family and dismissed the government’s objections that they posed a danger or a flight risk.
Biery conditioned the release of El Gamal and her adult daughter Habiba Soliman on wearing electronic monitoring tags.
He gave the government until 4:00 p.m. on Friday  to provide him with a written report confirming the releases.
Mohammed Sabry Soliman is accused of launching an attack using Molotov cocktails and a flamethrower on June 1, 2025, in Boulder, Colorado, against a group rallying in support of Israeli hostages held by Hamas. Fifteen people were wounded in the attack and one of them subsequently died.
Authorities say Soliman, an Egyptian, was living illegally in the United States.
El Gamal was Soliman’s wife. NBC reported that she divorced him after his arrest.
The Trump administration had justified the detention of the family on the grounds they may have had prior knowledge of Soliman’s intentions.
However, Soliman and El Gamal have maintained he acted alone.