Boston suspects’ mother: The mother of the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects has insisted they are innocent, adding that she regretted moving to the United States from southern Russia.
“Why did I even go there?” Zubeidat Tsarnaeva tearfully asked, according to CBS News.
“America took my kids away from me,” she added, according to NBC News. “I’m sure my kids were not involved in anything.”
Tsarnaeva claimed that her elder son, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was alive when he was apprehended by police and later died in custody. The official account of his death was that he died during a police shootout on Thursday night, while other reports also said that he was ran over by his brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, as he tried to get away.
“Politics is a dirty game, not everyone can speak about this. I do not know who needed this. I know one thing, this has been done and that it was not my children,” she added. “Everything that has been said does not match our children.”
She was not able to elaborate on the purported conspiracy to frame and kill her son.
“I really feel sorry for all of them. Really feel sorry for all of them,” she said, speaking about the victims of the bombing that left three people dead and 170 injured, according to CNN.
But she insisted there is “something wrong” with her two sons being suspects.
Their father, Anzor Tsarnaev, is planning to travel back to the U.S. on Thursday. His wife will not travel back to the U.S. amid reports that she was charged with shoplifting years ago and was never arrested.
Russia asked the U.S. twice for additional information on Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011, it was reported. The FBI found no sign of terrorist activity, however.
The family came to the U.S. on an asylum petition around a decade ago but the parents returned to Russia.
“I thought America was going to like protect us, our kids. It’s going to be safe for any reason. But it happened the opposite,” she told NBC.
