DNA collected at one of the scenes of the Paris shootings is a match to a suspect arrested on Wednesday evening.
The man, named by police as Abdelhakim Dekhar, was detained at around 7pm local time (6pm UK time) in a vehicle in an underground car park in the western suburb of Bois-Colombes.
The office of city prosecutors said the reading of Mr Dekhar's rights had to be postponed because he was not in a position to be questioned.
Police said he appeared heavily medicated when he was detained and interior minister Manuel Valls said the suspect seemed to have attempted suicide.
"Everything seems to show that indeed, he tried to commit suicide. However, he did not kill himself, which is very important so that we can find out all the facts," Mr Valls said.
Police made the arrest after a tip-off Police sources told the AFP news agency that the man arrested is the same Abdelhakim Dekhar who was convicted in 1998 for his links to a 'Bonnie-and-Cyde-style' murder spree on October 4, 1994.
Dekhar was accused of buying a gun used in the attacks by Florence Rey and her lover, Audry Maupin.
Three policemen and a taxi driver were killed after the pair hijacked a taxi.
Dekhar protested his innocence at his trial in 1998, claiming he had been recruited by the Algerian secret service to infiltrate the French far-left.
Witnesses at the trial described him as a mentor to the couple and accused him of manipulating them.
He was found guilty and sentenced to four years in jail.
Investigators had earlier released CCTV images of the man they were looking for taken in an entrance in the La Defense business area.
The suspect was caught on camera in the La Defense area They have received hundreds of calls about the case from members of the public.
On Monday, the shooter critically wounded a photographer at the offices of Liberation newspaper.
The photographer was arriving for his first day of freelance work at the newspaper and suffered wounds to his chest and stomach.
After fleeing the newspaper's offices in the east of Paris, the gunman is believed to have crossed over to the western edge of the city, where he fired several shots outside the main office of the Societe Generale bank. No one was hurt.
He then reportedly hijacked a car driven by a priest and forced him to drop him off close to the Champs-Elysees in the centre of the city.
The shootings prompted a manhunt across Paris. The motive for the attacks remains unknown.
The same man is also suspected of previously entering the offices of French TV station BFM carrying a gun.
The attacks led to French police arranging guards at Paris media outlets.
The photographer's assistant, who has not been named, is understood to be awake and off life support.
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