A suspect arrested over shootings in Paris has been indicted and remanded in custody, officials say.
Abdelhakim Dekhar, 48, was arrested on Wednesday after a manhunt followed a shooting on Monday at left-wing newspaper Liberation that left a photographer's assistant seriously hurt, and a separate incident in which shots were fired at the headquarters of the Societe Generale bank.
Dekhar had been jailed in the 1990s for his role in a "Bonnie and Clyde" style multiple murder and left rambling letters denouncing conspiracies and media manipulation.
On Wednesday he was found in a vehicle in an underground parking lot in the northwestern Paris suburb of Bois-Colombes, after apparently trying to commit suicide.
His DNA matched samples from the scenes of Monday's attacks, officials said.
The undated letters found by investigators denounce capitalism and speak of "a plot aimed at the return of fascism in the media, in banks, in the policy on suburbs", Paris prosecutor Frederic Molins said.
The shooter in Monday's incident opened fire with a 12-gauge shotgun at Liberation's offices, hitting a 23-year-old photographer's assistant, then fired another blast that hit the ceiling before leaving.
He crossed the city to the La Defense business district on its western edge, where he fired shots outside the office of the Societe Generale bank.
He hijacked a car and forced the driver to drop him off in the centre of the French capital, before disappearing.
Police say the shooter was the man who on November 15 stormed into the Paris headquarters of 24-hour news channel BFMTV, threatening staff with a gun before hurrying out.
Dekhar was convicted in 1998 of buying a gun used in the October 1994 shooting attack by student Florence Rey and her lover Audry Maupin.
Three policemen, a taxi driver and Maupin were killed in a case that captivated France.
Dekhar was acquitted of armed assault but found guilty of procuring the weapon and sentenced to four years, but released shortly afterwards.
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