MOSCOW, June 4 (RIA Novosti) - The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bomb attack has assured his family that he is “fine” at the US military hospital where he is being held and has no need of financial help, according a recording of a phone call with his parents published by international media.
In the recording, first aired by Britain’s Channel Four news network and subsequently republished widely by international media on the Internet, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is heard telling his mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaev, that “everything is good” for him and telling her: “Please don’t say anything.”
Tsarnaev, a 19-year-old man with ethnic and family roots in the volatile Russian region of Chechnya, spoke with his parents in Dagestan, a republic also in Russia’s North Caucasus mountain region bordering Chechnya.
The second suspect in the April 15 Boston twin bomb attack, Tamerlan Tsarnaev (Tsarnaev’s older brother), was killed in a shoot-out with police in a Boston suburb. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is being held at a military hospital in Massachusetts.
In the audio recording, Tsarnaev assures his emotional mother, who has insisted that her sons did not perpetrate the attack as accused, that he does not need money and seems to be trying to calm her about his situation.
“Somebody opened an account for me,” Dhokhar Tsarnaev says in the audio. “I do have lots of money.”
The suspect’s father, Anzor Tsarnaev, said in the report that his son does not grasp the gravity of his situation.
“The child is in shock,” the father says in the report. “He doesn’t understand what has happened to him.”
Dhokhar Tsarnaev has been charged with various terrorism-related offenses including use of a weapon of mass destruction. No trial date has yet been set. He could face the death penalty.
