Johar Tsarnaev defended his brother’s widow from accusations of terrorism

The American of Chechen descent Johar Tsarnaev, arrested for organizing a double terrorist attack in Boston , testified according to which the widow of his brother, who died as a result of a shootout with the police of Tamerlane Tsarnaev, has nothing to do with explosions at the finish of the international marathon on April 15. According to Tsarnaev Jr., Katherine Russell did not know anything about the impending crime, the NBC television channel reports from the words of a representative of federal law enforcement agencies.

Investigators, however, continue to check whether Islam that had accepted the sake of her husband and the American Catherine Catherine Rawlle could have been related to the organization of a terrorist attack, during which there were three of more than 200 people, noted, NBC noted.

The woman’s lawyers confirmed that she plans to continue to meet with representatives of the investigation, whose questions were already answered “many hours” during previous conversations. According to lawyers, Katherine is trying to maximize the investigation. The news that her husband and his brother organized a terrorist attack became a “absolute shock” for the woman, the lawyer’s statement said.

It is also reported that Katherine Russell provided the authorities with a sample of his DNA so that she could be compared with the traces of a DNA of a woman discovered on fragments of a bomb. According to the lawyers, it turned out that this was not DNA Russell.

At the same time, the investigation came to the conclusion that the bombs blown up at the finish of the Boston marathon were assembled houses with Tamerlana Tsarnaev, where he lived with his wife and child.

"We are not barbarians"

Meanwhile, the question of the burial of Tamerlana Tsarnaev remains open - at once the three American states refused to provide a place in the cemetery for the grave of a terrorist who died from gunshot wounds . In this regard, they even spoke about the possibility of sending his body to Russia .

However, with this option, the uncle of the deceased Ruslan King, who lives in the United States and taking the troubles of organizing a funeral, was categorically disagreed, Gary Jamme, chief of the Woster district police, said the corpse of the terrorist.

“We are not barbarians. We bury the dead,” the policeman said, calling on to help with the search for a burial place. According to him, the body of Tamerlana Tsarnaev is currently stored in one of the funeral offices, which the police are forced to protect, which leads to significant spending from the local budget.

At the same time, the federal authorities and state authorities self -polluted from the problem, complained to Jamma - Governor Massachusetts and the US State Department refused to participate in the resolving the issue of burial, NBC points out.

As for Johar Tsarnaev, he was wounded by the police during a shootout and is currently in a prison hospital. The trial of it, as planned, will begin at the end of May. The 19-year-old terrorist may threaten the death penalty.