Police arrest man suspected of Paris shooting attacks
Source: The Guardian
French police have arrested a man they suspect to be the gunman who spread panic across Paris for three days after shooting and critically injuring a young man at the offices of the newspaper Libération on Monday.
The man was discovered in a car in an underground car park at Bois-Colombes in the Paris suburb of Hauts-de-Seine at about 7pm French time (6pm GMT) on Wednesday.
He was said to bear a very strong resemblance to a man in photographs taken from security cameras. The rifle-toting man shot a young photographer's assistant at Libération. He had previously threatened a senior editor at BFM TV on Friday evening.
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However, detectives were reportedly unable to question the man because he was "semi-conscious", having taken a quantity of medical drugs in a suspected attempt to kill himself.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/20/paris-arrest-shooting-newspaper-liberation
French authorities have named a man arrested on suspicion of carrying out recent gun attacks in Paris as Abdelhakim Dekhar.
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The BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris says Dekhar is believed to have been the third man in the so-called Rey-Maupin affair, named after a young couple with links to anarchist groups who bungled an attempt to steal weapons from guards and then hijacked a taxi.
In the subsequent chase and shootout, three policemen and the taxi driver were killed, as well as Audry Maupin.
Maupin's girlfriend, Florence Rey, was released from jail a few years ago.
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