The mother of the Boston bombing suspects says she doesn’t believe her sons carried out the marathon attacks.
Speaking at a press conference, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, said that she regretted moving to the US and that “America took my kids away from me.”
Emotional and tearful, Mrs Tsarnaeva said that American authorities had told her that she could not see her 19-year-old son Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is in hospital being questioned by investigators.
He reportedly suffered a self-inflicted throat injury during a shoot-out and subsequent stand-off with police as he went on the run after the April 15 bombings.
According to US officials he has said that his brother, Tamerlan, 26, who died in gunfight with police, recruited him to take part in the attacks only recently.
Mrs Tsarnaeva said that the brothers were: “very close, they loved each other”.
She said that Dzhokhar’s lawyers had said that investigators has not yet questioned her son and that he was not yet well enough.
She said that she had been told he had a “really bad wound to his right neck” which meant he could not eat and was being fed by a tube.
The brothers’ father, Anzor Tsarnaev, told reporters he would be travelling to the US. He said: “I am going to the United States. I want to say that I am going there to see my son, to bury the older one. I don’t have any bad intentions. I don’t plan to blow up anything.”
Banging the table as he spoke, he said: “I am not angry at anyone. I want to go find out the truth.”
Mrs Tsarnaeva said that she was not sure whether she would accompany her husband. She was charged with shoplifting in the US last summer and is concerned she could be arrested.
They were speaking as it emerged that Tamerlan’s name had been included on a database of suspected terrorists by the CIA in 2011, 18 months before the attacks.
He was investigated after the Russian security service, the FSB, raised concerns that he had become a follower of Russian Islam.
Mrs Tsarnaeva said that she didn’t believe that Russia had raised concerns over her son with the US authorities.
She said she had spoken to her son after the bombings and before he was killed in the police shoot-out.
She said he had told her: “Don’t worry mamma” and tried to reassure her because “he always knows I worry about whatever has happened.”
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