MOSCOW, September 5 (RAPSI) – Police have arrested an individual who stands accused of organizing an explosion in a McDonald’s restaurant in St. Petersburg in 2007 leaving 10 wounded, the Investigative Committee announced on Friday.

The suspect, born in 1989, whose name was withheld, resided in St. Petersburg. According to investigators, a young man was a member of an organised group which was planning a series of attacks in the city as a protest against the local authorities and their policy on on ethnic relations.  

Two explosions occured in St. Petersburg on February 18, 2007. One of the bombs was set off in the McDonald’s restaurant on Nevsky Prospekt. 

In 2009, three members of the group were charged with terrorism, possession of explosives and sentenced to different prison terms.

Prosecutors asked asked an 18-year prison sentence for Fyodor Kovalchuk, a mastermind of the attacks, but he got 15 years. His accomplice Evgeny Skorov received a seven-year suspended sentence, Vladimir Kosyakov got six yeras. Another underaged member of the group was cleared.