( CNN ) -- A jury in Copenhagen City Court on Monday found 25-year-old Chechen Lors Doukaev guilty of attempted terrorism , the court announced . According to the court documents Lors Doukaev intended to send a letter bomb to Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten but accidentally set off the bomb material in Copenhagen Hotel Jorgensen where he was staying last September . The blast destroyed the bathroom and injured Doukaev , who ran into a nearby park . Police surrounded him in the park and the bomb squad detonated a pouch he was wearing . In addition to the conviction for attempted terrorism , he was also found guilty of carrying a pistol . He could be sentenced to up to 16 years in prison . Sentencing will be Tuesday . Doukaev traveled to Denmark on September 7 under false name and booked a room on Hotel Jorgensen under a false name . He said in court that he had a pistol and a bomb for personal security reasons . Jyllands-Posten triggered global protests and controversy in 2005 when it published 12 drawings of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed . The controversy grew in early 2006 when a Norwegian newspaper reprinted the drawings . Islamic law generally bans any depiction of Mohammed .
Lors Doukaev of Chechnya was injured when bomb material detonated in a hotel . He intended to send a letter bomb to a Danish newspaper , court documents say . The newspaper had published 12 drawings of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed .