Authorities in France have named a man arrested on suspicion of carrying out gun attacks at the offices of a newspaper and bank in Paris.
Prosecutors said Abdelhakim Dekhar, 48, was detained in a car park in the north-west suburb of Bois-Colombes in Paris on Wednesday following a big manhunt.
Last Friday, a gunman threatened a Paris TV station and on Monday seriously wounded a photographer's assistant in the lobby of the Liberation newspaper before fleeing.
Shortly afterwards, he fired at least three shots into the lobby of the headquarters of Societe Generale in the La Defense business district. There were no casualties.
The gunman later vanished into the crowds of the Champs-Elysees boulevard after forcing a driver at gunpoint to take him there.
Prosecutors said late on Wednesday that samples of Dekhar's DNA matched that from the crime scenes, the BBC reports. They said he was not yet in a position to be questioned and the reading of his rights had been postponed.
He was found after a tip-off in a car park in the western Paris suburb. It appears he had taken an overdose and was taken to hospital where he is under police guard.
Authorities said Dekhar had been jailed for four years for his role in an infamous attack in the French capital in 1994.
Back then, a young couple with links to the anarchists' movement tried to steal guns from guards at a car pound, but it went wrong and in the subsequent chase across Paris, three policemen and a taxi driver were killed.
Dekhar was convicted as an accomplice of the couple, but always protested his innocence.
