Russian news agencies quote officials with the St. Petersburg prosecutor's office as saying the suspect -- a 28-year-old man -- was detained over the weekend. No charges have been brought against him yet.
Samba Lampsar Sall, a 28-year-old Senegalese student, was gunned down as he emerged from a nightclub on April 7.
St. Petersburg has been the site of several recent attacks on foreigners, mainly from Africa.
(RIA Novosti, ITAR-TASS)
Epidemic Of Hate
Yusuf Sultonov, whose 9-year-old daughter was beaten and stabbed to death in St. Petersburg on February 9, 2004 (TASS)
EXTREMISM ASCENDANT: More than half of Russians have xenophobic views, according to a report published in August 2005. In the report, rights groups say that -- despite progress in some areas -- racism, xenophobia, and anti-Semitism remain rife in Russia. But what worries watchdogs most are recent moves by nationalist-patriotic movements to form paramilitary groups....(more)
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