PARIS: France said yesterday that the suspect arrested over this week’s shootings in Paris is a man previously jailed for his role in a “Bonnie-and-Clyde” style multiple murder that gripped the country 20 years ago.
Abdelhakim Dekhar was arrested on Wednesday after a major manhunt following a shooting at the left-wing newspaper Liberation that left an assistant photographer seriously hurt and another at the headquarters of the Societe Generale bank.
His DNA matched samples from the scenes of the attacks, officials said. “All the evidence today points to his involvement in the events that he has been charged with,” Interior Minister Manuel Valls said. AFP
