Boston Bombing suspect 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was formally charged with the murder of 3 people and the injury of more than 260 others and other lesser charges such as carjacking and commercial fraud, after having been successfully indicted in a Boston Magistrate’s Court.
Written by Chris White
According to the prosecution the brothers constructed bombs from pressure cookers, low explosive powder, ball bearings, nails, glue, electronic components and other materials.
If convicted Tsarnaev faces life in imprisonment or even the death penalty.
US Federal prosecutors alleged that Tsarnaev and his brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan, bought material online that could be used for manufacturing an electronic bomb, downloaded a publication containing instructions in building explosive devices and used a firing range in order to practice killing innocent people.
Tsarnaev was captured by anti-terrorism police in an upturned boat, parked in a backyard, in Watertown Massachusetts, where according to the indictment he scrawled onto a piece of paper: “The US Government is killing our innocent civilians. I can’t stand to see such evil go unpunished.”
The indictment accuses Tsarnaev of aiding and abetting his brother by planting and detonating one of the devices which exploded on the day of the bombings.
Outlining the indictment at today’s news conference was female US Attorney Carmen Ortiz, who said: “They took these acts as an explanation, in some ways, to affect what United States foreign policy may be, and also as a measure of perhaps a protest against what they viewed or perceived as actions by the United States in foreign countries.”
Speaking of the victim’s families Ortiz said: “Their strength is extraordinary and we will do everything that we can to pursue justice not only on their behalf, but on the behalf of all us.”
The Tsarneav brothers were originally born into an ethnic Chechen Muslim family in the Russian Federation’s Caucus region, but have been living in the United States for about a decade. Chechnya is currently run an autonomous republic, within the mainly Christian Orthodox Russian Federation which native Chechens wish to break-away from.
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