MOSCOW/MAKHACHKALA, April 20 (RIA Novosti) – Russian father of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings hopes to travel to the United States and seek justice for his sons, who he believes, were set up.
Anzor Tsarnaev, a resident of the volatile republic of Dagestan, has maintained that his sons are not criminals, but victims of a "provokation" despite all the reports from the U.S. authorities.
“I don’t know where my son is, I don’t know what happened to him,” Tsarnaev told RIA Novosti in a phone interview from Makhachkala. “I want to go to America … We will take measures, seek justice,” he said.
The only remaining suspect in the bombings, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was taken into custody late Friday after a massive manhunt which followed a shootout with police on Thursday night in which his brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan, was fatally injured. The two men were identified as ethnic Chechens from southern Russia's North Caucasus who have lived in the U.S. for about a decade. The police haven't reported any possible motives behind the Boston bombings that killed at three.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was reportedly seriously wounded late Friday when the police found him lying bloodied in a boat at a backyard in Watertown.
His father, Anzor Tsarnaev, said he is ready to appeal the European Court of Human Rights in an effort to seek truth in the case. He recalled in the interview that the last time he talked to his sons was shortly after the Boston Marathon bombings. One of them told the worrying father that everything was fine and none of them was injured in the incident. The elder Tsarnaev said that the two brothers, who were the family’s pride, planned to start some private business.
The suspects’ uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, who also lives in the U.S, earlier slammed his nephews in televised remarks for bringing shame on “the entire Chechen community.”
