Tamerlan Zarnayev

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Tamerlan Ansorowitsch Zarnajew ( Russian Тамерлан Анзорович Царнаев ., Scientific transliteration Tamerlan Anzorovič Carnaev , English transcription Tamerlan Tsarnaev * 21st October 1986 in the Kyrgyz SSR , Soviet Union ; † 19th April 2013 in Watertown , Massachusetts , United States ) was a Russian boxer and is considered one of the actors in the attack on the Boston Marathon in 2013. The second assassin was Tamerlan's younger brother Jochar, who was sentenced to the death penalty . In the early 2000s, Zarnajew emigrated with his family from Dagestan to the USA , where he first studied and later began a career as a boxer. Towards the end of the 2000s he turned increasingly to Islam and later ended his career as a boxer because of this, among other things. After a trip to Chechnya and Dagestan, he prepared the attack on the Boston Marathon with Jokhar Zarnayev , in which three people died on April 15, 2013 and many others were seriously injured. After the brothers shot a police officer a few days later, the police caught them. Tamerlan Zarnayev died after an exchange of fire broke out and his brother ran over him in a car while trying to escape.

Family background

The brothers' father, Ansor ( Russian Анзор , English transcription Anzor ) came from a Chechen family who had lived in the Kyrgyz SSR of the Soviet Union since the time of the Stalinist deportation in the 1940s . Her mother Subeidat ( Russian Зубейдат , English transcription Zubeidat ) comes from Dagestan and is of Avar nationality . The family found itself in conflict between the different cultures; the parents lived a forbidden mixed marriage - no problem in America, a scandal in a family with clan structures.

The brothers, like their two sisters, were born in Kyrgyzstan and grew up in the city of Tokmok . In 2001 they moved to Makhachkala (Dagestan) in Russia . In the early 2000s, the family decided to emigrate to the United States, where a brother and sister of Ansor Zarnayev had already emigrated with a refugee aid program in the first half of the 1990s. Since it took a long time to prepare the exit documents, the family stayed in Dagestan, the mother's home country, for about five months from October 2001. All children went to school in Makhachkala during this period.

According to Russian intelligence, at first only the brothers to live with Uncle Ruslan Tsarni in the USA, and the rest of the family followed later. (The different last name from the fact stated that the uncle at his entry instead of the Russified form Zarnajew the Chechen name form Царни ( transkr. : Zarni) stated that in English Tsarni results.) The departure took place, confirmed as the Turkish foreign ministry, on the Turkey - one of the main routes of legal emigration to Europe and America.

In the USA the family asked for political asylum and has been writing to Tsarnaev there ever since . The family has had an official residence permit since 2007. In 2011 the family lived on social assistance and food stamps, in September the parents divorced and Ansor Zarnayev moved back to his homeland (for health reasons). In the summer of 2012, the mother also left the country.

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Tamerlan Zarnajew lived in Boston on a green card and studied engineering at Bunker Hill Community College between 2006 and 2008 , but dropped out to pursue a career as a boxer. As an amateur boxer, he won the New England Golden Gloves in the heavyweight division in 2009 and 2010 and also took part in the National Golden Gloves in 2009 , where he lost to the later silver medalist Lamar Fenner on points.

In 2009, Tsarnaev was on record with the Boston police on charges of domestic violence against his then-girlfriend. On June 21, 2010, he married a native American, a Christian who had converted to Islam . She had a daughter from him, who was two years old at the time of Tamerlan's death. Tsarnaev believed in various conspiracy theories and was a supporter of the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones .

On September 11, 2011, the tenth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks , Brendan Mess, his sparring partner and best friend at the time , was married to his two friends Raphael Teken and Erik Weissman in his apartment in Waltham , a small town west of Boston murdered. Their throats were cut and marijuana was strewn on their bodies. All three victims were of Jewish descent. The triple murder remained unsolved. After the marathon attack, Middlesex County prosecutors announced they were investigating whether Tamerlane Zarnayev played a role in the killings.

In 2011, the Russian domestic intelligence service FSB warned both the US foreign intelligence service CIA and the Federal Police FBI and asked for information about him, as it was suspected that his Islamist attitudes were radicalized and that he was close to Chechen terrorists. Two FBI officers then visited the Zarnayev family in January 2011, questioned Tamerlan and other family members, but found no evidence of terrorist activities. In the summer of 2011, this information was sent to the Russian government. The United States Department of Homeland Security has refused to allow Zarnayev to be naturalized because of his questioning by FBI officials.

The CIA had Zarnajew added to the TIDE (Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment) database.

From January 12 to July 17, 2012, Tamerlane Zarnayev visited Dagestan and Chechnya. One month after his return, a website appeared under his name on the video portal YouTube , which referred to various jihadist videos, including the radical Islamist preachers Abdul al-Hamid al-Juhani and Feiz Mohammed, as well as Islamist songs by the singer Timur Muzurajew . In contrast, the secret services FSB (Russia) and MWD (Dagestan) had no evidence of any contact with radical Muslims during his visit to Dagestan. In the aftermath of the attack on the Boston Marathon, he was considered one of the two main suspects. He died on the run from the police during an exchange of fire on April 19, 2013 after his brother Jochar ran him over in a car while on the run.

filming

Themo Melikidze took on his role in the thriller Boston , directed by Peter Berg in 2016 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Irina Gordijenko: Как братья Царнаевы уезжали в Америку ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (German: How the Zarnajew brothers came to America). In: Online edition of Novaya Gazeta from April 22, 2013 (Russian). Retrieved April 22, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.novayagazeta.ru
  2. ↑ Jan Christoph Wiechmann : Why? In: The magazine of April 18, 2014 (archive)
  3. ↑ Josh Dawsey et al .: Manhunt Ends With Capture of Boston Bombing Suspect. In: Wall Street Journal online April 19, 2013. Retrieved April 22, 2013.
  4. ↑ Ulrike Ruppel: Zarnajew Brothers: Who are the suspects? In: Online edition of the BZ from April 20, 2013. Retrieved April 22, 2013.
  5. ^ Peter Finn et al .: Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were refugees from brutal conflict. In: Washington Post online April 19, 2013. Retrieved April 22, 2013.
  6. ^ Johannes Hirn: Will box for Passport: An Olympic Drive to become a United States citizen. ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 16.4 MB) In: The Comment Graduate Students Magazine from 2010, pp. 17–20, on the homepage of Boston University's College of Communication (English). Retrieved April 22, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bu.edu
  7. ↑ Kevin Iole: Dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev had boxing aspirations. Information on Yahoo! Sports from April 19, 2013 (English). Retrieved April 22, 2013.
  8. ↑ Sebastian Fischer: Dead Boston assassin Zarnajew: The radicalized mother's son , Der Spiegel online 24. Spiegel 2013
  9. ↑ Michelle R. Smith et al: Katherine Russell Tsarnaev, Wife Of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Wanted By Feds For Interview. . In: The Huffington Post, April 23, 2013. Retrieved April 24, 2013.
  10. ^ Alan Duke: Boston bombing suspect's wife 'very distraught,' lawyer says. Report on the Internet presence of the news channel CNN of April 23, 2013 (English). Retrieved April 23, 2013.
  11. ↑ Tamerlin Tsarnaev's Influences include Alex Jones and a Radical Exorcist , The Atlantic Wire, April 23, 2013
  12. ↑ Link sought between brother, 3 Waltham killings , The Boston Globe April 22, 2013
  13. ↑ Eric Schmitt et al .: Bombing Inquiry Turns to Motive and Russian Trip . In: Online edition of the New York Times, April 20, 2013 (English). Retrieved April 22, 2013: The request was "based on information that he was a follower of radical Islam and a strong believer, and that he had changed drastically since 2010 as he prepared to leave the United States for travel to the country's region to join unspecified underground groups. "
  14. ^ Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was on CIA terror database say officials amid claims his brother was unarmed when arrested , The Independent April 25, 2013
  15. ↑ Timeline: A look at Tamerlan Tsarnaev's past. Report on the Internet presence of the news channel CNN of April 23, 2013 (English). Retrieved April 23, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Tsarnaev, Tamerlane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zarnajew, Tamerlan Ansorowitsch (full name); Tsarnaev, Tamerlane; Царнаев, Тамерлан Анзорович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian assassin, perpetrator of the Boston Marathon attack
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Kyrgyz SSR , Soviet Union
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 2013
Place of death Boston , United States