The last suspect in the 2007 McDonald's bombing was detained in St. Petersburg.

Investigators from the St. Petersburg Investigative Committee, together with employees of the regional FSB, detained a resident of St. Petersburg born in 1989 on suspicion of committing a terrorist attack, the reports . department’s website, Alexander Bastrykin,

“According to the investigation, in 2007, Fyodor Kovalchuk, Vladimir Kosyakov and two minor residents of St. Petersburg decided to commit an explosion in the McDonald’s LLC restaurant, located at 45/2 on Nevsky Prospekt. The accomplices made a homemade explosive device, which on the evening of Sunday, February 18, 2007, was detonated in the specified restaurant. As a result, eight visitors and two restaurant employees suffered injuries of varying degrees of severity, and the owner of the premises suffered damage in the amount of about 2 million rubles,” the St. Petersburg Investigative Committee said in a statement.

The detainee is currently charged with terrorism; the court will choose a preventive measure for him on Friday.

Despite today's statement by the Investigative Committee, the court in 2009 acquitted Kosyakov on charges of terrorism. He was found guilty of hooliganism and manufacturing explosives in another episode of the case: an explosion at a flower shop, not far from the anarchist and anti-fascist event “Food Not Bombs.” According to the investigation, the accused committed the crime out of hatred for people who professed anti-fascist views.

For the explosion at McDonald's, Fyodor Kovalchuk was sentenced to 15 years in prison, and Evgeniy Skorov, who collaborated with the investigation, received a seven-year suspended sentence.