France's Interior Minister Manuel Valls announced Thursday that DNA samples taken at the scenes of a string of shootings in the French capital this week matched those of a suspect arrested in a car park north of Paris on Wednesday.
Police named the suspect as Abdelhakim Dekhar who was caught on Wednesday after a major manhunt following a shooting at the offices of left-wing newspaper Libération, which left a photographer’s assistant in a critical condition, and a subsequent shooting in the business district of La Defense.
Dekhar, 48, it has emerged, was previously jailed for four years in 1998 for his role in a "Bonnie-and-Clyde" style murder spree that horrified France in the 1990s.
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