Apr 25, 2026
Editor's note: The family of the suspected Boulder firebombing suspect returned to Colorado Saturday evening. Denver7 reporter Claire Lavezzorio reported that they landed at Signature Aviation at DIA. Once they got off the plane they prayed, added Lavezzorio. Attorneys say the family of the man charged in last year's Pearl Street Mall attack is coming home after being re-detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Saturday, according to the family's attorneys."The El Gamal's deportation flight has turned around and is returning to Denver," attorney Eric Lee in a post on X around 3:30 p.m. "We are told the family will be released, but we don't trust a word they say."Hayam El Gamal the accused firebomber's wife, who has filed for divorce and their five children returned to Colorado Saturday morning after 10 months in an ICE detention center in Texas, according to a statement from the family's attorneys, following a federal judge's order to release them earlier this week. The attorneys said a little after noon that the family had been put "on a plane headed for Detroit's Willow Run Airport, and then outside the United States to an unknown location."A federal judge later granted an emergency motion to stop the family's removal on Saturday."The attempt to remove the El Gamal family is in violation of a federal court order and must be halted immediately," a statement from the attorneys said after the family was detained. "The rights of the entire population and the most basic constitutional principles of separation of powers are at stake."The family has said they had no knowledge of the plans for the attack. The emergency motion filed Saturday said the family has renounced Mohamed Soliman.According to the motion, the family was detained at their first scheduled check-in at ICE's Denver field office following their release from the Texas facility.The motion for stay, which was first filed prior to the check-in, said legal counsel for ICE said on Friday "he could not confirm or deny whether ICE would attempt to re-detain the family at a check-in."Denver7 has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security for comment.El Gamal and the five children, ages 5 to 18, have been detained since ICE raided their Colorado Springs home soon after the June 1 fatal firebombing in Boulder. According to the emergency motion filed by the family's attorneys Saturday, the family was detained from June 3 through April 23.Previously detained for "expedited removal," per the White House, U.S. District Judge Fred Biery this week found no evidence they knew about the Boulder plot and noted their detention appeared to be indefinite.Soliman is accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at people demonstrating for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza on Pearl Street Mall. Thirteen people were injured in the attack, and an 82-year-old woman later died from her injuries.Federal authorities say Soliman, who is Egyptian, has lived illegally in the U.S. with his family. In the emergency motion filed Saturday, attorneys said the family "entered the United States legally in August 2022 and subsequently overstayed their visas awaiting determinations on their affirmative asylum applications."Soliman is being held in the Boulder County Jail and faces murder, attempted murder, and 12 federal hate crime charges.This is a developing story that may be updated. ...read more read less
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