St. Petersburg police has arrested six underage nationalists who have pleaded guilty to plotting a blast in a McDonald’s on Nevsky Prospekt in mid-February.
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6 Underage Nationalists Arrested for Blowing Up McDonald’s in St. Pete
St. Petersburg police on Thursday arrested six teenagers suspected of blowing up a McDonald’s in the city center in mid-February. The detainees have been charged with terrorism.
Six people were injured in a blast at a McDonald’s restaurant on Nevsky Prospekt in the heart of St. Petersburg on February 18. An improvised explosive device which went off had been left in a bag under a table. Local politicians said that the incident had been timed to St. Petersburg’s legislature elections. The city's governor Valentina Matvienko insisted that it was “a matter of honor” for police to solve the crime.
The perpetrators have been found after police arrested two skin-heads who attacked two Uzbek nationals in Pushkin outside St. Petersburg. One Uzbek died of wounds and the other one was badly injured. Police put nationalist-minded friends of the detainees under surveillance. Some of the criminals were identified with the help of CCTV footage in the McDonald’s on the day of the blast.
Police detained six nationalists, finding at their flats explosives and an explosive device similar to the ones which went off in the McDonald’s in February and near a stall at a metro station which injured the saleswoman. The suspects have been charged with terrorism.
A court on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for the detainees. All of them are under age, a source in St. Petersburg police told Kommersant. Most of the suspects have already pleaded guilty.
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All the Article in Russian as of Mar. 23, 2007
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