14 DAY TRIAL // The remains of Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev remain uninterred some two weeks after he was shot in a police chase in Watertown.
Yesterday, his body was still at Graham Putnam & Mahoney Funeral Parlors in Worcester, Massachusetts where it was deposed after leaving the examiner's office in Boston, as reported.
Since many are protesting outside the funeral home, asking for the body not to be buried on US soil and threatening to dig it out, officials are still not making up their minds about the burial.
According to the LA Times, the FBI have been asked to handle funeral arrangements, but have refused the responsibility.
"To my knowledge, the FBI does not have a role in this, and I believe funeral regulation is a state issue," spokeswoman Katherine Gulotta says.
The town of Cambridge is also refusing the burial, citing the disturbance that the city would incur amid public demonstrations.
"The difficult and stressful efforts of the citizens of the city of Cambridge to return to a peaceful life would be adversely impacted by the turmoil, protests, and widespread media presence at such an interment," city manager Bob Healy expresses in a statement.
Graham Putnam & Mahoney parlor director Peter A. Stefan has decided that it's time for the rotting body to be put into the ground, describing contacting authorities about Tsarnaev being transported to Russia.
"I’d like to explore the Russian issue a bit more, if I can get to them.... That would be ideal.
"I’ve spoken to some people I can’t bring up or mention. [...] The conversation was such: 'Well, maybe, yes, who knows.' That’s no good to me. I have to know somebody’s going to pick him up," Stefan notes.
"We have to do something, because in this country, we bury people. We don’t leave them hanging around," he reminds authorities.