Suspects’ aunt threats: The aunt of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects has said that she received threats since Friday after she gave an interview with reporters about her nephews.
“They are calling us, calling names, threatening, saying it’s time to go home,” Maret Tsarnaeva said over the weekend, reported the Toronto Sun. “Yes, it is time. We did not find that promise -- democracy -- in this country. But if I go home, I will go home only with bodies of my nephews.”
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, remains in serious condition in a Boston hospital, reportedly suffering from a gunshot wound to the throat. He was apprehended on Friday night, a day after his brother and second bombing suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed.
Their aunt, who lives in Toronto, believes that the two men, who moved to the United States with their parents in the early 2000s, were set up by the U.S. government.
“They made our boys enemies of the American nation,” she told the paper. “They made them victims of the conspiracy.”
She added: “They needed somebody to blame for something they committed themselves so they got them, so rejoice people, rejoice.”
Anzor Tsarnaev, the father of the suspects, shared the aunt’s sentiment.
“They were set up, they were set up!” Anzor Tsarnaev told the Associated Press, speaking from the Russian region of Dagestan. “I saw it on television.”
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