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SURVIVORS OF THE Boston Marathon bombing will watch as the young man who could face the death penalty for the attack appears in court for the first time since he was found bleeding and hiding in a boat in a suburb days after the April 15th explosion.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s arraignment was scheduled for Wednesday afternoon in federal court in Boston. He has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction in the bombings that killed three people and wounded more than 260.
The courthouse is expected to be jammed for 19-year-old Tsarnaev’s appearance. A spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s office said space is being reserved in the main courtroom for victims’ families, but she wouldn’t indicate how many planned to attend. Court officials have set aside an overflow courtroom to broadcast the hearing for the media.
Reporters and spectators began lining up for seats in the courtroom at 7:30 a.m. as a dozen Federal Protective Service officers and bomb-sniffing dogs surrounded the courthouse.
Four hours before the hearing, Tsarnaev arrived at the courthouse in a four-vehicle motorcade that included a van, a Humvee and a state police car.
The van carrying Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to court was heavily guarded by state police and U.S. Marshals (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)
A group of about a dozen Tsarnaev supporters cheered as the motorcade arrived. The demonstrators yelled “Justice for Jahar,” as Tsarnaev is known. One woman held a sign that said, “Free Jahar.”
Lacey Buckley, 23, said she traveled from her home in Wenatchee, Washington, to attend the arraignment. Buckley said she has never met Tsarnaev but came because she believes he’s innocent. “I just think so many of his rights were violated. They almost murdered an unarmed kid in a boat,” she said.
Brittney Gillis, a student at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, where Tsarnaev attended, came to the courthouse because she wanted to see the suspect. She said he used to walk her friend home in the evenings because he was worried about her being alone.
“He would walk her from the campus library to her dorm at night,” she said.
Tsarnaev has yet to appear publicly since his April 19 arrest. His initial court appearance took place at a hospital, where he was recovering from injuries suffered in a shootout with police the day before in the Boston suburb of Watertown.
Authorities say he had escaped in a hijacked car after running over his brother and alleged co-conspirator, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died following the shootout with police. But he was found the next day after a lockdown in Watertown was lifted and a local homeowner noticed blood on the dry-docked boat.
A supporter of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev outside the Boston courthouse prior to his arraignment. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)
Tsarnaev’s arrest stunned those who knew him as a likeable high school athlete in Cambridge, where he lived with his older brother after his parents left for Russia.
His parents were in Makhachkala, in the southern Russian province of Dagestan, on Wednesday. His mother declined to comment.
Prosecutors say Tsarnaev, a Muslim, wrote about his motivations for the bombing on the inside walls and beams of the boat where he was hiding.
He wrote the U.S. government was “killing our innocent civilians.”
“I don’t like killing innocent people,” he said, but also wrote: “I can’t stand to see such evil go unpunished. … We Muslims are one body, you hurt one you hurt us all.”
The indictment also said that, sometime before the bombings, Tsarnaev downloaded Internet material from Islamic extremists that advocated violence against the perceived enemies of Islam.
Three people — Martin Richard, 8; Krystle Marie Campbell, 29; and Lingzi Lu, 23 — were killed by the bombs, which were improvised from pressure cookers. Authorities say the Tsarnaevs also killed Massachusetts Institute of Technology officer Sean Collier days later while they were on the run.
Numerous bombing victims had legs amputated after the two explosions, which detonated along the final stretch of the race a couple hours after the elite runners had finished.
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Yeah, I went to Ford for a certain job and was quoted €360 for parts and labour. Labour would have been 30 minutes max.
Bought the parts online from an Irish retailer for €90 (exact same parts as Ford were using) and I did the job myself in 30 minutes…. Saved a lot of money doing it myself.
The online Irish stores are atrocious. I buy stuff online for friends and family as presents etc to save me shipping from the US, but more often than not have to order from a UK site, which is a shame.
Also some of the few Irish shopping sites that exist are laid out terribly. Look at powercity.ie, my god it’s like a five year old put it together and that check out is pretty bad.
And that goes for the online deal sites in Ireland too – some of the so called ‘deals’ are anything but.
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Me thinks this is contributing to poor retail results as well … Do you vat on online purchases?
Yes if from outside ireland
Why would you not pay vat purchasing goods online within ireland?
Vat charged on all purchases unless already paid in another eu country. Vat in ireland for most goods set at 23% compared to 21% outside. Add savings in not paying high shop rents electricity ect means big savings. Buy something outside eu over gift value about €35? is subject to customs duty and excise plus vat. Comes down po if you get good advice and service from your local shop, buy from them and pay their markup, if not buy on the internet until they provide better value.
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