Boston Marathon bombings. Terrorist attack in Boston: the secret of a great political provocation revealed
Two explosions occurred near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The first explosion occurred in the northern part of Boylston Street near the finish line of the marathon at about 14:50 US East Coast time (22:50 Moscow time). A few seconds later, a second explosion occurred in the same area of Boston.
They became the first major terrorist attack on US soil after the al-Qaeda-planned attack on the twin towers of the World War II shopping center, Pentagon and White House in 2001.
The incident was called a "coordinated terrorist attack."
The FBI took control.
Brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are accused of organizing the terrorist attack. Brothers who came from Dagestan, during recent years lived in the USA. Tamerlan on April 19 from wounds received in a shootout with police. Dzhokhar was detained on April 20.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged with 30 counts, 17 of which could have meant life imprisonment or the death penalty.
According to the FBI, the Boston Marathon bombing was carried out by brothers based on religious extremism. They downloaded instructions for making a bomb from the Internet, from where they also took publications and appeals from supporters of jihad and holy war. The explosive devices that went off at the finish line of the Boston Marathon were manufactured in the home of Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
According to media reports, the younger of the brothers previously said that the main motive for the attack was dissatisfaction with US actions in Afghanistan and Iraq. During the hearing, Tsarnaev did not admit guilt to any of the charges against him.
At the end of January 2014, US Attorney General Eric Holder demanded that Tsarnaev death penalty. The defense sought to have some of the charges dropped.
The US Congress released a report on the investigation into the terrorist attack, in which it pointed out insufficient level coordination of activities of intelligence services and law enforcement agencies. The report says that in July 2012, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, whom intelligence agencies considered potentially dangerous, was about to be questioned at New York's Kennedy Airport upon returning from Dagestan, where US authorities believed he might have received terrorist training. Then Tsarnaev managed to avoid interrogation due to an incorrectly recorded name in the database. It is also noted that in March 2011, Russian security officials warned the FBI, in particular, about Tamerlan’s connections with radical Islamists, but the FBI closed the investigation into Tsarnaev, “having found no links with terrorism.”
Started in Boston trial in the case of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Hearings in Tsarnaev's case have begun in court in Boston. More than 90 prosecution witnesses spoke in court, and the defense invited four people.
A jury has convicted Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on all 30 counts of plotting the Boston Marathon bombing.
The jury sentenced him to death after 14 hours of deliberations. The jury voted in favor of capital punishment on 6 of the 17 capital charges. On June 24, Tsarnaev's official verdict was read.
His team of lawyers filed an appeal to the Massachusetts state court for a new trial, arguing that the jury's decision was significantly influenced by the fact that the trial took place in Boston, where the terrorist attack took place.
A federal judge agreed to prosecutors' request to award more than $100 million in damages to 49 victims, as well as the Massachusetts Victim Relief Fund.
Tsarnaev's lawyers filed an appeal.
May appear in a US court again in a new case for the murder of police officer Sean Collier. Despite the fact that the murder was one of the counts of the federal conviction, the district attorney's office is now seeking Tsarnaev's trial.
He is being held at the maximum security prison in Florence, Colorado, where he was transferred on July 17, 2015.
In the case of the Boston terrorist attack, three student friends of Tsarnaev are also involved - citizens of Kazakhstan Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbaev, as well as American Robel Phillipos. According to investigators, three days after the terrorist attack, they got rid of a backpack that belonged to the main accused, which contained pyrotechnics, as well as his laptop. The backpack was later found in a landfill. they were charged with obstruction of justice in the investigation of a terrorist attack and conspiracy to destroy evidence. Philippos was also charged with perjury.
Students from Kazakhstan Dias Kadyrbaev and Azamat Tazhayakov were sentenced to six and 3.5 years, respectively. The court also found Robert Phillipos guilty of lying to investigators after recognizing the terrorist suspect as his friend. He was sentenced to three years in prison.
Another friend of Tsarnaev, Khairullozhon Matanov, for concealing information from the investigation. According to the prosecution, he met with the Tsarnaev brothers for dinner on the day they carried out the terrorist attack. However, he did not inform investigators about this, and also destroyed materials on his computer that could indicate that he knew the Tsarnaevs. Matanov, who arrived in the United States from Kyrgyzstan, admitted his guilt and entered into a plea deal.
The trial of American Scott Silva, who handed over the pistol to Tsarnaev, with which he killed a Boston police officer during a shootout when he was being pursued after the terrorist attack at the marathon, was held. During the investigation, Silva said that Tsarnaev asked for a gun to use in a robbery in Rhode Island. According to the prosecution, Scott Silva did not know about the plans to prepare a terrorist attack. He faced up to five years in prison for possessing a weapon with an obliterated serial number, but the court sentenced him to a formal prison term of 17 months, which the American had already spent in prison.
A resident of the American city of Cambridge, Merhawi Berhe, admitted that he owned a weapon with an erased serial number, which later fell into the hands of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
The material was prepared based on information from RIA Novosti and open sourcesThe Boston Marathon is an annual sporting event, passing through several cities in It is always held on Patriots' Day, the third Monday in April. The first race took place in 1897. It was inspired by the success of the first marathon in the summer Olympic Games 1896. The Boston Marathon is the oldest annual race and is also considered one of the most famous in the world.
The marathon attracts approximately 500,000 spectators, making it the most popular sporting event in New England. Although only 18 athletes took part in this race in 1897, it now averages about 30,000 registered participants. The 1996 anniversary Boston Marathon set a record for the number of participants: 38,708 people were registered to join the race, 36,748 people started and 35,868 reached the finish.
Story
The first Boston Marathon was organized in April 1897, inspired by the revival of the race at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. It is the oldest continuously operating and the second longest in North America.
The event is dedicated to the celebration of Patriots Day and symbolizes the connection between Athenian and American freedom fighters. The first winner was John McDermott, who ran the 24.5 mile distance in 2:55:10. The race, which became known as the Boston Marathon, It has been held every year since then. In 1924, the start was moved to Hopkinton, and the course was lengthened to 26 miles 385 yards (42.195 km) to meet the standards established at the 1908 Olympics and codified by the IAAF in 1921.
The Boston Marathon was originally a local event, but due to its fame and prestige, it began to attract runners from all over the world. For most of its history, this event was completely non-commercial, and the only prize for winning was a wreath woven from branches olive tree. Sponsored cash prizes began to be awarded only in the 1980s, after professional athletes began to refuse to participate in the race without significant rewards. The first cash prize for winning the marathon was received in 1986.
The fight for women's right to participate in the marathon
Women were not officially allowed to compete in the Boston Marathon until 1972. Roberta Gibb, according to the organizers of the competition, is the first woman to complete the entire marathon distance (in 1966). In 1967, Katherine Switzer, registered as "K.W. Switzer," became the first woman to run to the end with an official race number. She managed to reach the finish line despite a widely publicized incident in which marathon administration official Jock Semple tried to rip off her number and prevent her from running. In 1996, women who had unofficially competed in the marathon from 1966 to 1971 and were the first to finish were retroactively officially recognized as champions. In 2015, about 46% of participants were female.
Rosie Ruiz scandal
A scandal occurred at the Boston Marathon in 1980, when amateur runner Rosie Ruiz came out of nowhere to win the women's race. Representatives of the marathon administration became suspicious when they discovered that Ruiz was not visible in the video recordings of the race until almost the very end. Subsequent investigation revealed that Ruiz sat out most of the competition and then, about a mile (1.6 km) before the finish, blended into the crowd and easily passed her competitors. The judges officially disqualified Rosie. The 1980 Boston Marathon was thus won by Canadian athlete Jacqueline Gareau.
Accidents
In 1905, James Edward Brooks of North Adams, Massachusetts, died of pneumonia shortly after never returning home. In 1996, a 62-year-old man from Sweden died from heart attack. In 2002, 28-year-old Cynthia Lucero died of hyponatremia.
2013 Boston Marathon
During the 2013 marathon, on April 15 at 14:49 local time, more than two hours after the winners crossed the finish line, two explosions occurred on Boylston Street, approximately 200 meters before the finish, separated by 180 meters.
The explosions killed three and injured at least 144 people, of whom 17 were seriously injured. Among those killed was an eight-year-old boy. No terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the bombings. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) took over the case and soon photographs of two suspects were obtained.
On the night of April 18, a police officer was killed in a shootout in Cambridge, near the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, after which an operation began to capture two suspects, brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The eldest of them, Tamerlan, died in the hospital in the early morning of April 19. Residents in nearby areas were advised to stay inside their homes with their doors locked. Public transportation in Boston was suspended, including the state's largest Transport Department Massachusetts Bay and Amtrak Railroad; Schools and universities were closed, as were many businesses. Human rights authorities, led by the State Police, conducted a raid in the city of Watertown, and on April 19 at 8:45 a.m., Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was arrested.
The 2013 Boston Marathon, where an explosion killed an 8-year-old boy and a 29-year-old woman (both residents of the Boston suburbs), as well as a 23-year-old student from China, is a huge tragedy for all civilized humanity. Among the seriously wounded were the dead boy's mother and sister.
Terrorist attack at the marathon
Two bombs exploded within 15 seconds of each other near Copley Square in Boston. As a result of the terrorist attack, three people were killed and more than a hundred were injured of varying degrees of severity. The winners crossed the finish line about two hours before the explosions, but there were still many runners who had yet to run to the end of the Boston Marathon.
The terrorist attack came as a surprise to everyone: before the attack, no threats had been received from terrorist organizations.
They were of such a type that they could easily be made by taking instructions from the Internet or any other source. The explosives were inside six-liter pressure cookers, which were hidden in nylon duffel bags.
Shootouts, pursuit and arrest
Shortly after the photographs were published, a shootout took place in the vicinity of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, near Building 32 (Stata Center). This happened on April 18 at 22:48 local time (02:48 UTC). Several shots were fired. The bullets hit a police officer sitting in a patrol car. He was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital, and, after some time, doctors pronounced him dead. The policeman's name was Sean Collier, he was 26 years old, from Somerville, Massachusetts, and worked for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Police Department.
The Tsarnaev brothers seized a silver Mercedes SUV in Cambridge and forced the owner to withdraw $800 from an ATM. Having taken the money, they released the owner of the car. The suspects told him they were believed to be responsible for the Boston Marathon bombing. Police traced the car to Watertown, Massachusetts. Employees law enforcement agencies In Watertown, several clashes and shootings were reported, during which there were also explosions. That evening, The Boston Globe reported that the shooting involved men wanted for the marathon bombing. The shootout with the police and the explosion of a bomb thrown by the criminals were observed by residents of Watertown. One of the brothers was caught, but the other managed to escape in a stolen SUV. A 33-year-old Massachusetts Bay Transit Police officer named Richard H. Donahue Jr. was seriously wounded in the shootout. Fortunately, the wound was not fatal.
On the morning of April 19, following a car chase and shootout with police, one of the suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was taken to Beth Israel Medical Center, where he died from multiple gunshot wounds and injuries sustained in the explosion. The FBI has released photographs of two suspects in the Watertown shootings. The second of the brothers, Dzhokhar, sometimes called the “white hat suspect,” was still at large, according to police. Authorities say the brothers threw homemade bombs from their car at police officers who chased them from Cambridge to Watertown.
In 2015, one of the perpetrators of the explosion was found guilty of 30 counts and sentenced to death.
Remembrance ceremony
On April 18, an interfaith memorial service for the victims of the terrorist attack was held at Boston's Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Cross. American President Barack Obama and some Boston Marathon veterans spoke there.
Doping scandal at the 2014 marathon
In this year's marathon, Kenyan runner Rita Jeptoo finished first among women. However, she was disqualified after the World Anti-Doping Agency said she tested positive for banned substances. Hearings in this case took place in January 2015.
2016 Boston Marathon
In 2016, American Jami Marcele became the first woman to finish the Boston Marathon with both legs amputated. The host of the event was Bobbi Gibb, the same one who ran the marathon exactly 50 years ago, in 1966. The 2016 women's winner, Ethiopia's Atsede Baisa, gave Bobbie Gibb her prize. She agreed to accept it on the condition that in a year she would come to Ethiopia and return the cup to its rightful owner.
Two explosions occurred near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The first explosion occurred in the northern part of Boylston Street near the finish line of the marathon at about 14:50 US East Coast time (22:50 Moscow time). A few seconds later, a second explosion occurred in the same area of Boston.
They became the first major terrorist attack on US soil since the al-Qaeda-planned attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the White House in 2001.
The incident was called a "coordinated terrorist attack."
The FBI took control.
Brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are accused of organizing the terrorist attack. The brothers are natives of Dagestan and have been living in the United States for recent years. Tamerlan on April 19 from wounds received in a shootout with police. Dzhokhar was detained on April 20.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged with 30 counts, 17 of which could have meant life imprisonment or the death penalty.
According to the FBI, the Boston Marathon bombing was carried out by brothers based on religious extremism. They downloaded instructions for making a bomb from the Internet, from where they also took publications and appeals from supporters of jihad and holy war. The explosive devices that went off at the finish line of the Boston Marathon were manufactured in the home of Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
According to media reports, the younger of the brothers previously said that the main motive for the attack was dissatisfaction with US actions in Afghanistan and Iraq. During the hearing, Tsarnaev did not admit guilt to any of the charges against him.
At the end of January 2014, US Attorney General Eric Holder demanded the death penalty for Tsarnaev. The defense sought to have some of the charges dropped.
The US Congress released a report on the investigation into the terrorist attack, which pointed to an insufficient level of coordination between the activities of intelligence services and law enforcement agencies. The report says that in July 2012, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, whom intelligence agencies considered potentially dangerous, was about to be questioned at New York's Kennedy Airport upon returning from Dagestan, where US authorities believed he might have received terrorist training. Then Tsarnaev managed to avoid interrogation due to an incorrectly recorded name in the database. It is also noted that in March 2011, Russian security officials warned the FBI, in particular, about Tamerlan’s connections with radical Islamists, but the FBI closed the investigation into Tsarnaev, “having found no links with terrorism.”
The trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has begun in Boston.
Hearings in Tsarnaev's case have begun in court in Boston. More than 90 prosecution witnesses spoke in court, and the defense invited four people.
A jury has convicted Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on all 30 counts of plotting the Boston Marathon bombing.
The jury sentenced him to death after 14 hours of deliberations. The jury voted in favor of capital punishment on 6 of the 17 capital charges. On June 24, Tsarnaev's official verdict was read.
His team of lawyers filed an appeal to the Massachusetts state court for a new trial, arguing that the jury's decision was significantly influenced by the fact that the trial took place in Boston, where the terrorist attack took place.
A federal judge agreed to prosecutors' request to award more than $100 million in damages to 49 victims, as well as the Massachusetts Victim Relief Fund.
Tsarnaev's lawyers filed an appeal.
May appear in a US court again in a new case for the murder of police officer Sean Collier. Despite the fact that the murder was one of the counts of the federal conviction, the district attorney's office is now seeking Tsarnaev's trial.
He is being held at the maximum security prison in Florence, Colorado, where he was transferred on July 17, 2015.
In the case of the Boston terrorist attack, three student friends of Tsarnaev are also involved - citizens of Kazakhstan Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbaev, as well as American Robel Phillipos. According to investigators, three days after the terrorist attack, they got rid of a backpack that belonged to the main accused, which contained pyrotechnics, as well as his laptop. The backpack was later found in a landfill. they were charged with obstruction of justice in the investigation of a terrorist attack and conspiracy to destroy evidence. Philippos was also charged with perjury.
Students from Kazakhstan Dias Kadyrbaev and Azamat Tazhayakov were sentenced to six and 3.5 years, respectively. The court also found Robert Phillipos guilty of lying to investigators after recognizing the terrorist suspect as his friend. He was sentenced to three years in prison.
Another friend of Tsarnaev, Khairullozhon Matanov, for concealing information from the investigation. According to the prosecution, he met with the Tsarnaev brothers for dinner on the day they carried out the terrorist attack. However, he did not inform investigators about this, and also destroyed materials on his computer that could indicate that he knew the Tsarnaevs. Matanov, who arrived in the United States from Kyrgyzstan, admitted his guilt and entered into a plea deal.
The trial of American Scott Silva, who handed over the pistol to Tsarnaev, with which he killed a Boston police officer during a shootout when he was being pursued after the terrorist attack at the marathon, was held. During the investigation, Silva said that Tsarnaev asked for a gun to use in a robbery in Rhode Island. According to the prosecution, Scott Silva did not know about the plans to prepare a terrorist attack. He faced up to five years in prison for possessing a weapon with an obliterated serial number, but the court sentenced him to a formal prison term of 17 months, which the American had already spent in prison.
A resident of the American city of Cambridge, Merhawi Berhe, admitted that he owned a weapon with an erased serial number, which later fell into the hands of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
The material was prepared based on information from RIA Novosti and open sourcesThe terrorist attack consisted of detonating several improvised explosive devices located near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Two of them were detonated within 12 seconds of each other, and the rest were discovered later by police and the FBI. The first explosion occurred in the spectator stands near the finish line, when a significant part of the runners had already finished. The second explosion occurred in the spectator area at a distance of about 170 meters from the first one. The police immediately began evacuating spectators and marathon participants, while doctors and volunteers rushed to help the victims. The 2013 Boston Marathon bombing killed three people and injured more than 280, many of whom had to have their limbs amputated. Glass in nearby buildings was broken. According to the latest information, the bombs were stuffed with nails.
Two bombs filled with destructive elements went off at the finish line of the famous athletics marathon.
One of the race participants was knocked off his feet by the blast wave from the second bomb. Explosions rocked the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
People are in a state of shock after a terrible tragedy. The injuries are horrific. Everything indicates that the bombs were stuffed. Three dead, including an eight-year-old child.
Police officers are at the scene of two explosions that occurred near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday. According to preliminary data, more than 280 were injured, the condition of seventeen people is assessed as critical.
The victim is being taken on a stretcher to an ambulance.
Destruction and casualties at the explosion site. Barriers make it difficult to quickly reach victims.
Marathon organizers flee the site of the first explosion. Gathering at the finish line greatest number spectators, and it was here that two explosions occurred. Glass flew out of the windows and acrid smoke filled the stands. Neither the athletes nor the fans initially understood what had happened.
People are leaving the stands in a hurry.
An injured woman at the scene of the first explosion on Boylston Street.
The woman looks in horror at the place where the first explosive device went off. Photo taken during the 117th Boston Marathon.
Athletes who did not complete the race were stopped on Massachusetts Avenue.
A man consoles a victim at the site of the first explosion.
A victim of a terrorist attack in a wheelchair.
A Boston Marathon runner is reunited with her family.
A man consoles a frightened child.
The wounded woman is placed on a stretcher.
A seriously injured man waits for paramedics on the Boylston Street sidewalk.
Injured spectators are transported to safety.
A man after the Boston Marathon bombings.
People are moving away from the site of the terrible tragedy.
Runner Catherine was reunited with her aunt and brother outside Copley Square, where two explosions occurred.
Spectators were evacuated from the scene.
People on Boylston Street watching on the phone latest news from the scene of a terrible tragedy.
Justine Franco Montpellier of Vermont stands in Copley Square searching for her missing friend who was taking part in the annual marathon.
Women are desperately trying to reach their loved ones who were in the immediate vicinity of where the two bombs exploded.
A young couple with a stroller runs away from the scene of the explosion.
Frightened child with a head wound.
The man is helped to stop severe bleeding.
The FBI immediately classified the incident as a terrorist attack, and President Obama urgently issued a statement at the White House.
A woman prays at the finish line of a marathon.
Doctors at the scene of the tragedy on April 15, 2013.
Medical workers help an injured man.
Gathered in Boston the best specialists countries from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. They are trying to find any evidence, any clues to find the perpetrators and masterminds of this terrorist attack. There is no longer any doubt that this is a terrorist attack.
Boston hospitals began accepting the wounded almost from the first minutes after the tragedy. They are still working in emergency mode, many have already undergone operations, and doctors continue to fight for the lives of some.
A Boston police officer clears Boylston Street of photographers and onlookers.
Medical workers transport a man whose legs were blown off in an explosion.
Two explosions occurred within 12 seconds of each other, killing 3 people and injuring more than 280 people.
Race participant.
According to The New York Post, the suspect in the terrorist attack is a 20-year-old native of Saudi Arabia. He received shrapnel wounds and burns.
After the incident, police blocked the entrances and exits to the hotel that serves as the headquarters of the Boston Marathon. The last terrorist attack up to this point was the one that took place on September 11, 2001.
Boston Marathon bombings- a terrorist attack that occurred on April 15, 2013 at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, in its spectator area. Two explosions occurred within 12 seconds of each other, killing three people and injuring more than 280 others.
Terrorist act
Marathon
Explosions
A little later (14:50:55 EDT)
The terrorist attack involved the detonation of two improvised explosive devices located near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The first explosion occurred at 14:49:44 EDT in the spectator area near the finish line. The marathon scoreboard showed a time of 4:09.43 (4 hours 9 minutes and 43 seconds from the start of the third group of runners). Although by this time most of the runners had already finished, 5,700 people remained on the course. After 12 seconds, a second explosion occurred in the spectator area at a distance of about 170 meters from the site of the first one.
The police forces on duty at the scene immediately began evacuating spectators and marathon participants, and doctors and volunteers began helping the victims. The explosions killed three people and injured more than 280 people; some of the victims had their limbs blown off by the explosion. Nearby buildings were damaged by the explosions; their windows were broken. Police and doctors reported that the bombs were filled with ball bearings and nails.
5 minutes after the attack
Responsibility
Immediately after the explosion, no one took responsibility for the terrorist attack. However, the main suspects, according to American intelligence services, were the Tsarnaev brothers, former citizens of Kyrgyzstan. Later, during a police and intelligence operation in Boston, Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed, and his younger brother, Dzhokhar, was detained.
Victims
Boston Children's Hospital said at least eight children were transported from the scene of the attack: a two-year-old boy with a severe head injury, a nine-year-old girl with a serious leg wound and six other children under the age of 15. Perhaps there are more minors among the victims, but various reasons they were taken to other hospitals.
| Name | Age | Citizenship |
|---|---|---|
| Martin Richard | 8 years | USA |
| Lu Lingzi | 23 years old | China |
| Krystle Campbell | 29 years old | USA |
Course of events after the terrorist attack
On April 18, the FBI released images of the suspects in the attack. It also reported that criminals killed a police officer in Watertown, Massachusetts, stole an SUV and exchanged gunfire with police during a pursuit. As a result, the MBTA police officer was very seriously injured and hospitalized. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed and his brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was wounded but managed to escape. The result was a police manhunt that deployed thousands of police officers to search the entire Watertown area.
On April 19, city officials asked residents of Watertown, as well as its suburbs, including Boston itself, not to leave their homes and remain in their homes. Also, almost all public transport, enterprises and government agencies were temporarily closed, which led to the creation of a deserted urban environment large size and duration for a quicker capture of a fugitive criminal. At approximately 7 p.m., shortly after the order to keep people in their homes was lifted, a Watertown resident helped police locate a suspect attempting to hide in a boat in the backyard of a witness's home. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was arrested and taken to the hospital.
During the first interrogation at the hospital, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev admitted to the police that it was his brother who was the mastermind of the crime. He said that their actions were motivated by Islamic extremism and the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and also added that they are an independent and independent radical group and do not belong to any other terrorist group. But, in turn, we learned how to build explosive devices with the help of an online magazine Inspire(ultra-radical al-Qaeda affiliate in Yemen). Dzhokhar insisted that if they had managed to escape without being caught, they would have decided to go to New York to blow up Times Square.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged on April 22, while he was in the hospital. He was charged with using weapons of mass destruction and causing property damage, committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy, resulting in the death of several people.
Investigation
Suspects
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On the evening of April 18, two young men approached a police officer in the city of Cambridge (a suburb of Boston), and one of them shot him several times in the head. The policeman, 26-year-old Sean Collier, died in the ambulance without regaining consciousness. The attackers got into his patrol car, and then seized another car - a Mercedes SUV, and they told the driver, who was taken hostage for half an hour and then released (according to other sources, he managed to escape), that it was they who staged the explosion on Boston Marathon. It was reported that those who attacked the police officer then went to a nearby 7-Eleven grocery store and committed an armed robbery there, but this information turned out to be incorrect - they were not the ones who committed the robbery.
Then the police got on the trail of the criminals, and the chase began. The criminals rushed to the Boston suburb of Watertown, shooting at police officers and throwing homemade explosive devices at them along the way. As a result, a Boston Transit Police officer received a serious gunshot wound. The chase ended in Watertown, where the elder criminal ran toward the police and shot until he ran out of bullets, and in the shootout the police managed to wound him in the arm. The police who had knocked Tamerlan to the ground tried to handcuff him when Dzhokhar, who was in the car, rushed in their direction, prompting them to run away. The police fled, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev drove over his brother, dragging him along the ground, catching him under the bottom of the car, thereby causing numerous fractures and severe injuries internal organs. , Then Dzhokhar Tsarnaev broke through the cordon and disappeared. Despite the fact that police officers rushed the criminal to the hospital, Tamerlan Tsarnaev died without regaining consciousness. operating table at 1.35 local time. .
The eldest terrorist was identified as 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, and the one who escaped was 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, his brother. Until 2002, the Tsarnaev brothers lived in Dagestan, in Makhachkala, where they had previously moved from Kyrgyzstan (from the city of Tokmak). Being Chechens by nationality, they arrived in the United States in 2002 as citizens of Kyrgyzstan. In 2012, Tamerlan Tsarnaev spent six months in Russia.
The Boston Police Department posted on its Twitter page an image of the Massachusetts license plate 116 GC7 belonging to the green 1999 Honda sedan in which Dzhokhar Tsarnaev fled. The FBI website posted a photo of the suspect and asked the public to call the attached phone number with any relevant information. The car the police were looking for was found in the Boston area on April 19, with no one in it. In connection with the operation to capture Dzhokhar, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a number of others were temporarily closed educational institutions. Police armored vehicles, police cars and ambulances were pulled into the area where the alleged terrorist could be hiding.
On the evening of April 19, Dzhokhar was detained in Watertown. Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis told a press conference how Dzhokhar was detained: “The suspect came to our attention after a brutal attempt on the life of our officer and a robbery, or rather a car theft at a gas station, we have camera footage.” But, according to Davis, he managed to escape. Later he entered phone call, to which three Boston police officers, along with military officers and FBI agents, went to the indicated address. “A man came out of his house, where he had been all day due to the stay-at-home orders, and said he noticed blood on his motorboat in the yard.” Tsarnaev's hideout was discovered using a FLIR infrared camera (English)Russian on a police helicopter. Dzhokhar responded to calls to surrender by shooting. The police threw stun grenades at the boat, and after a short firefight, the FBI managed to get inside the boat and remove him from it. The wounded Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured and taken to the hospital in serious condition. According to doctors, he had two severe gunshot wounds and his condition was assessed as critical.
According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, several months before the terrorist attack, the Russian FSB repeatedly sent information to the FBI about the activities of the Tsarnaev brothers. However, in response to requests Russian side there was no answer. On last appeal Russia on cooperation in the fight against terrorism, the American side responded that they “will deal with their citizens themselves” and refused to cooperate. In March 2011, the FSB did indeed send a memorandum to the FBI and the CIA, which stated that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was an adherent of radical Islam who intended to join some underground group, but did not indicate that by that time it already had a decryption in its possession telephone conversation between Tsarnaev and his mother, which discussed jihad. According to American officials, they sent a request to the FSB for additional information, but received no response. Then the American intelligence service organized an inspection of the Tsarnaev family on its own, but did not find anything seditious. Apparently, American intelligence agencies were not aware of Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s visit to Dagestan in 2012. He was not detained in Russia itself (although his movements were monitored): according to a source in the Russian special services, he was not considered to pose a serious threat. In Dagestan itself, both officials and rebels also denied that Tsarnaev was connected to the Dagestan underground.
Additional Persons
On May 1, 2013, information appeared that two students from Kazakhstan were detained - Dias Kadyrbaev and Azamat Tazhayakov, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s college acquaintances. They were charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice. They are accused of throwing away a backpack and electronic devices from the room of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, after they learned that he was suspected of carrying out a terrorist attack. In addition, the detainees could give false testimony to the investigation. In addition, US citizen Robel Phillipos was detained and accused of giving false statements to investigators. The jury trial in the case of Kadyrbaev, Tazhayakov and Phillipos began on June 23, 2014. Azamat Tazhayakov was sentenced to 3 years in prison; on the morning of June 16, 2016, he returned to Alma-Ata. Dias Kadyrbaev was sentenced to 6 years in prison; he returned to Almaty on October 24, 2018.
On May 22, an acquaintance of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, an immigrant from Chechnya Ibragim Todashev, was killed. It was initially reported that Todashev staged a shootout with FBI agents, during which he was killed. Later, reports appeared in the media that Todashev tried to seize the weapon of one of the FBI employees, and also that he used a knife in the attack. Later, two interrogation participants immediately stated that Ibragim Todashev did not have a weapon, and that during the attack he overturned a table and a chair. Todashev's father stated that seven shots were fired at his son, one of which was fired into the back of the head. According to police, before his death, Ibragim Todashev admitted during interrogation that in September 2011 he participated in the murder of three people in Waltham, Massachusetts, along with Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
At the end of May 2014, charges were brought against taxi driver Khairullozhon Matanov, 23 years old, a resident of Quincy, Massachusetts, a native of Kyrgyzstan. The investigation established that Matanov had dinner with the main defendants in the case, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the day before the terrorist attack. According to investigators, Matanov hid his friendly relations with the Tsarnaevs, tried to destroy, change and falsify records and documents indicating connections with them. He is accused of complicity in the April 15, 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, destruction of evidence and making false statements. .
Reaction to the terrorist attack
In connection with the terrorist attack in all major cities The US has raised its terrorist threat level and taken enhanced security measures. The Boston airport was closed for 30 minutes due to a flight ban over the area near the site of the terrorist attack. Many people express their condolences in connection with the terrorist attack and offer their help to the victims. On April 19, about 9 thousand police officers concentrated in Boston and its suburbs; authorities in the state of Massachusetts announced the introduction of a regime emergency. Google has launched a special section Boston Marathon Explosions on the website Google Person Finder to help and search for victims of the terrorist attack.
Court
Court hearings in the case began in July 2013. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty to any of the 30 charges against him. According to Reuters, US Attorney General Eric Holder intends to seek the death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. “If he is found guilty,” the prosecutor general said, “we will demand the death penalty for him.”
On January 5, 2015, the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev began. Tsarnaev's lawyers have been negotiating a pre-trial deal with the prosecution for months. In particular, the possibility of Tsarnaev admitting his guilt in exchange for a sentence of life imprisonment without parole was discussed. However, this would have meant abandoning the prosecution's request for the death penalty, and the US Department of Justice ultimately did not agree to this step.
On January 7, 2015, jury selection began. During the first three days of the trial, 1,200 juror candidates arrived at the federal courthouse, from which 12 primary and 6 alternate jurors were selected. The defendant was familiarized with the indictment, which was read to him by Judge George O'Toole. Tsarnaev's lawyers tried to portray their client as a naive victim of manipulation by his older brother Tamerlan and get him a life sentence. The prosecution, in turn, insisted that Tsarnaev Jr. is a religious fanatic and a cold-blooded killer driven by hatred of the United States. They intended to seek capital punishment for the accused.
On April 8, 2015, the jury returned a verdict against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. This was preceded by 17 days of testimony and the presentation of evidence. The jury was shown photographs and videos of the aftermath of the explosions. Survivors of the attack gave their testimonies. Among them was the father of the youngest victim of the explosion, an eight-year-old boy named Martin Richard, who was literally torn to pieces by the second bomb. Prosecutors described Tsarnaev as a cold-blooded killer who plotted with his brother Tamerlan to kill American citizens in retaliation for the US military's actions in Muslim countries. Prosecutor Alok Chakravarti said: "This was a sober, carefully planned attack, everything was premeditated." The jury - seven women and five men - deliberated for a day and a half before reaching a verdict. Tsarnaev was found guilty on all 30 counts, including his participation in the attack. He was also found guilty of shooting and killing police officer Sean Collier days after the attack, when the FBI had already released photographs of him and his brother as suspects in the attack. Although prosecutors couldn't say with certainty which brother pulled the trigger, both were found "equally culpable" in Collier's death.
On May 15, 2015, a federal judge announced the verdict: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found guilty on all 30 counts and sentenced to death. According to the verdict, he will be given a lethal injection.
The Middlesex County District Attorney's Office intends to file criminal charges against death row inmate Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. He is charged with the murder of police officer Sean Collier and a number of other crimes he committed after the April 15, 2013 terrorist attack at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. District Attorney Marian Ryan intends to return Tsarnaev from a prison in Colorado to a county prison in Massachusetts for investigative actions. According to lawyers, this is a precedent-setting decision, since before this, those sentenced to death were not the objects of additional legal prosecution.
Cinema
- In 2016, the film “Patriot's Day” was shot, covering the events of those days through the eyes of police officer Tommy Sanders (Mark Wahlberg).
- On September 22, 2017, a film entitled "Stronger" was released, which chronicles the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings.
