French police arrest Paris shooting suspect


  • World
  • Thursday, 21 Nov 2013

PARIS (Reuters) - French police have arrested a man they suspect shot a newspaper employee and fired at a bank this week, saying he had been jailed in the 1990s for his role in another Paris shootout that killed three policemen.

Abdelhakim Dekhar, 48, was arrested late on Wednesday in a semi-conscious state in a parked car in a Paris suburb, Interior Minister Manuel Valls told a news conference on Thursday. He appeared to have attempted suicide, Valls said.

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