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The Tsarnaev parents are confident that their children were framed
The parents of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, suspected of committing a terrorist attack in Boston, consider their sons’ guilt unproven and claim that they were framed.
“I can’t say who needs it, this or that, the special services must figure this out,” the suspects’ father, Anzor Tsarnaev, said at a press conference in Makhachkala on Thursday.
“I only know that there was a terrorist attack in Boston, that one of my sons was killed, the other was arrested,” said Zubeidat Tsarnaeva. “But the fact that they are tied to this crime does not fit with these boys, with their character, with the life they lived,” she added.
When Tamerlan Tsarnaev came to Russia in 2012 to obtain a Russian passport , he did not communicate with any groups, his father said.
“He traveled to the United States on a Kyrgyz passport, which was expiring. We submitted an application to the Kyrgyz embassy in Washington, but Kyrgyzstan refused to grant us citizenship. I repeat once again, his Kyrgyz passport was expiring, and I told him: “Come to Makhachkala.” , get your passport here." Because he risked being left without documents at all, a stateless person," Anzor Tsarnaev said.
“He worked with me all this time, we were renovating the apartment we bought, he was breaking concrete all day long. He didn’t communicate with any groups here, he was under my supervision all the time,” he noted.
When asked if his son visited Islamist sites on the Internet, Tsarnaev replied: “He read a lot. He read Pushkin, Alexandre Dumas, he read all the authors. Naturally, he read Islamic literature. I even told him: “What, did you come here to read? Let's work."
When asked whether they turned to the Russian authorities for assistance in investigating the circumstances of Tamerlan’s death as a Russian citizen, the parents answered negatively. “Neither we applied, nor the authorities contacted us,” Anzor noted.
Zubeidat Tsarnaeva reported that FBI officers , in a conversation with her, promised help in organizing a visit with her youngest son. “They said that they would help him meet with Dzhokhar,” she said.
Chechens Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who emigrated to the United States, are accused in the States of organizing the Boston Marathon bombings , which killed three people and injured about 180. Tsarnaev Sr. died in the shootout, Dzhokhar was detained after a long pursuit . He is now in the hospital, American law enforcement agencies are conducting an investigation. Tsarnaev has been charged with organizing a terrorist attack.