Paris authorities have captured the man suspected of a series of shootings at media outlets and a major bank, and they say they have DNA evidence linking him to the crimes.  It turns out the suspect was once convicted in connection with an earlier, infamous series of shootings in Paris.

Prosecutors say Abdelhakim Dekhar was arrested in an underground parking garage in Bois-Colombes, ten kilometers north of Paris.  They are not confirming reports that Dekhar is being treated in hospital.  But police union official Christophe Crepin said, “My colleagues noticed he was not very lucid.  They deduced that he had taken medicines, because of the capsules nearby.”

Dekhar is suspect in a spate of attacks:  The first at news network BFM-TV last week;  the second on Monday at the prominent daily newspaper Liberation where one man was critically wounded; a shooting outside French bank Societe Generale; and a brief hostage-taking in which the suspect hijacked a car.

In 1998, Abdelhakim Dekhar was convicted and sentenced to four years in prison for providing a gun to to Florence Rey, whose boyfriend Audry Maupin killed five people in October, 1994 in Paris