Crime: Attack on Jewish demo government speaks of terror

After an attack on a Jewish demonstration with eight injuries in the US state of Colorado, the suspect was charged. According to the detention center in Boulder County, the 45-year-old will be charged, among other things, assault and an attack with fire sets. He is also accused at the federal level of having had a hate crime, as the Ministry of Justice announced. According to media reports, he is Egyptian; According to witnesses, he called a propalestinian slogan during the attack.

The man was also charged with murder in two cases. It was initially unclear whether this was related to the attack, because nothing has been known about fatalities so far. As the police said shortly after the incident, at least one of the victims suffered serious injuries.

The federal police FBI is investigating due to suspicion of terrorism. It was clear that the incident on Sunday afternoon (local time) in the pedestrian zone of the city of Boulder was a “targeted act of violence”, an FBI representative said at a press conference.

According to court documents, the alleged perpetrator stated that he had planned an attack for more than a year, wanted to kill “Zionist people” in a targeted manner and that he would celebrate such an attack again.

High-ranking representatives of the US government, including President Donald Trump, quickly stated that it was terror. Trump complained that the perpetrator came into the country due to the misguided migration policy of his predecessor Joe Biden. On the Truth Social platform, he wrote that the incident would once again show why people who are illegally illegally in the USA and also radical.

Attack on Jewish holiday

The suspect was arrested at the crime scene. According to Trump’s vice chief Stephen Miller, he was in the United States without a valid visa. He illegally exaggerated a tourist visa.

According to witnesses, the man used a makeshift flame thrower in the attack, threw a fire in a group of demonstrators and called “Free Palestine” during the attack. The attack occurred during the Jewish holiday in Schawuot, who is celebrated 50 days after the Passover Festival and is considered the predecessor of the Christian Pentecost.

According to police, the injured, four women and four men are between 52 and 88 years old. The police had initially spoken of six victims, but later increased the number.

Secret service coordinator: Attack was carried out by Jewish community

The US intelligence agent Tulsi Gabbard spoke on platform X of a “targeted terrorist attack on a weekly meeting of members of the Jewish community”. Accordingly, these had gathered to draw attention to the fate of the Israeli hostages, which were kidnapped in the Gaza strip in October 2023 after the terrorist attack of Islamist Hamas from Israel.

FBI boss Kash Patel called the incident on X a “targeted terrorist attack”. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Minister of Homeland Protection Kristi NoEM also ordered the incident as a terrorist attack. “Terror has no place in our great country,” wrote Rubio. You pray for the victims.

Shaken reactions from Israel

The Israeli forum of the hostage families expressed their sympathy for everyone. “Our thoughts are with the injured, their relatives and the entire community that was shaken by this senseless act of violence.”

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote on X: “My wife and I and the entire state of Israel pray for the full recovery of the injured of the hideous terrorist attack in Boulder, Colorado.”

By faring, water poured on fire victims

US media reported disturbing scenes at the scene. “There were people on the floor and a pile of others hurried with buckets and bottles and everything they could carry in water,” said a shopkeeper to the broadcaster CNN. “Everyone poured water on the burned people”. Meanwhile, the attacker was still on a meadow nearby. He worked “pretty quiet”.

Deadly shots in Washington are not long ago

Just a week and a half ago, a fatal attack in the US capital Washington triggered great horror worldwide: two employees of the Israeli embassy were shot there in front of the Jewish Museum. According to a document of the indictment, the alleged shooter justified with the support of the Palestinians during the war between Israel and Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Since the attack by Hamas and other Islamist terrorists on Israel on October 7, 2023, the number of anti -Semitic incidents in the United States has increased significantly. The attack, in which around 1,200 people were killed and more than 250 were dragged into the Gaza strips as hostages, was triggered by the Gaza War between Israel and Hamas. According to the health authority controlled by the Hamas, more than 54,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the war.