Two bombs tore a year ago three people in the Boston Marathon in death, hundreds were injured. It was the first major terrorist attack in America since September 11, 2001. Yet the Boston can not get her down.

Martin Richard had painted a poster at school. “Stop hurting people,” the eight-year-old wrote it. And: “PEACE”. Martin’s life ended on April 15, 2013 in the finish area of the Boston Marathon shortly to three clock in the afternoon.

Since those two homemade bombs went high, which should have put the brothers Tsarnaev. The boy was torn from one of the bombs.

One year is the back now. Three people died: in addition to the student Lingzi Richard Lu and the restaurant staff member Krystle Campbell. More than 260 were injured, many have lost limbs. To escape the suspects shot the Sean Collier police officers.

Five more bombs they had in their luggage. However, the police could stop: The 26-year-old Tamerlan Zarnajew died in a firefight with the officials; his then 19-year-old brother Dzhokhar could escape, was arrested four days after the assassination.

“Trapped! Hunting is finished. Terror is over. And justice has prevailed,” tweeted Boston police at that time.

It was the first major terrorist attack in the U.S. since 11 September 2001. Assassination of Boston shook the nation. Because the alleged perpetrators were not organized Qaeda fighters from abroad, but had radicalized themselves, America doubted his power of integration. Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Zarnajew – two guys with Chechen roots that seemed only to live the American dream, but then planned America’s nightmare.

To 14.48 clock on that Friday in April 2013 was Jeff Bauman near the finish line next to it, a guy with sunglasses and baseball cap, who showed no emotion. Baumann was worried. He wanted to change the place, but when he looked again, because the suspect was gone:

” Thank God, I thought … Then I noticed his backpack on the floor near my feet This classic airport warning flashed through my head:. Bags can not be left                                            unattended, report any suspicious objects and then I heard the explosion!. ”

He had obviously been standing beside Tamerlane Zarnajew , the elder of the brothers. Jeff Baumann lost both legs that day. In his book, ” Stronger” , he describes the events that triggered a wave of solidarity in Boston . They moved together , a city stood.

” Boston Strong” was the motto of the day. Rather than leave the place of the tragedy , were many of the marathon runner in the city , demonstrating their spirit of resistance , donated blood for the wounded ; Thousands kept vigil for Martin Richard , the boy with the Peace Poster; Thousands lined the streets as U.S. President Barack Obama came to the memorial service ; Tens of thousands of people visited the next home game to baseball’s Red Sox. ” The good people of Boston ,” Obama ( Watch a video of the time) said at the time .

Completely unexpectedly won the Red Sox a few months after the attack, the World Series at Fenway Park home : ” Winning here was important,” player Shane Victorino said, ” Boston is strong. ”

Boston Bomb Attack Anniversary:”We walk together”

On Monday, the city will make this again demonstrated: Good 36,000 participants should come to this year’s Boston Marathon, that would be a record. “We run together”, is the motto: “We run together.” Deval Patrick, the governor of the State of Massachusetts, explained that they celebrate these days, too, “as we have overcome together”.

Dzhokhar Zarnajew now sits in federal prison by a Fort Devens, an hour’s drive from Boston. His trial is scheduled to begin in November, the Attorney General has called for the death penalty. Although Massachusetts has abolished the death penalty, but Zarnajew is charged under federal law – and there she is still anchored.

The defense will probably attempt to make the older brother as the mastermind . Finally, it was Tamerlane , who had previously converted to radical Islamists in the years from promising amateur boxer with America – enthusiasm ( Click here to read a portrait ) . In 2011, he was come to the attention of the U.S. authorities for possible terrorist connections , the following year he traveled for half a year in the North Caucasus , moving in Islamist circles.

How confident but was the younger brother Dzhokhar ? How great was his share of the assassination plots ? With friends, he was not particularly religious as . When asked by the police on the evening of April 19, 2013 in a boat , it was discovered , according to the indictment a kind of letter of confession on the inner wall . With regard to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq Zarnajew to have written : ” Anyone who attacks a Muslim attacks all Muslims. ” He later explained at a first hearing in court that he was “not guilty.”

Well four months of Zarnajew process will take up to one hundred witnesses should be heard. The 30 charges include, among other things, the charge of four counts of murder and use of weapons of mass destruction . However, a life sentence for Zarnajew seems more likely than the death penalty : For the judgment must in the end make jurors . And if the majority opinion of the people of Massachusetts can be a clue , then the defendant is likely to get away with his life.

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