The man accused of injuring eight people Sunday on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall with a “makeshift flamethrower” and Molotov cocktails researched and planned the attack for more than a year, according to federal court documents.

Mohamed Sabry Soliman, a 45-year-old man whom federal officials said was living in Colorado illegally at the time of the attack, has been charged with a federal hate crime, according to a Federal Bureau of Investigation arrest affidavit .

Soliman threw two lit Molotov cocktails at the crowd of Run for Their Lives demonstrators, burning eight people, the affidavit stated. Investigators found another box with at least 14 unlit Molotov cocktails inside nearby.

Run for Their Lives is a national movement calling for the release of Israeli hostages held by the terrori

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