French police have taken a man into custody on suspicion of carrying out recent gun attacks in Paris, prosecutors say.
They said the man bore a strong resemblance to the person shown in surveillance camera footage.
He was taken into custody at about 18:00 GMT from a vehicle in a car park in Bois-Colombes, north-west of Paris.
The suspect threatened a TV station last Friday, and attacked a newspaper office and a bank HQ on Monday.
The man was apprehended from a stationary car in an underground car park following a tip-off from a member of the public.
Prosecutors said the reading of the man's rights had been postponed and he was not yet in a position to be questioned.
They have neither given the man's identity nor any motive.
The prosecutor's office confirmed the man was inaudible and had probably taken some medication.
Investigators have taken DNA samples and are checking them with those retrieved from the crime scenes.
Hundreds of police were involved in an intensive manhunt that began on Monday, and security was stepped up at all media outlets.
An appeal for information generated almost 700 calls.
The BBC's Christian Fraser in Paris says there had been discernible anxiety on the part of the authorities that this man would strike again.
He says that if this does prove to be the man there will be considerable relief, not least within the newsrooms reporting the story.
'I will not miss'
The first incident - last Friday - was at the offices of the BFMTV television channel.
The intruder emptied the chamber of his gun in the reception area without firing, saying: "Next time, I will not miss you."
CCTV showed that he spent only a few seconds in reception, before hurrying out.
On Monday, the suspect attacked the offices of the Liberation newspaper, firing twice and critically injuring a 23-year-old photography assistant.
Two hours later, the same man fired shots outside the headquarters of the bank Societe Generale, in the western business district of La Defense. No-one was hurt.
A car was then hijacked and the driver was forced to drop the suspect off near the Avenue des Champs Elysees, where he disappeared.
The attacks shocked French newspapers.
The publisher of Liberation, Nicolas Demorand, wrote a commentary on Tuesday promising to continue to operate.
"Opening fire in a newspaper is an attack on the lives of men and women who are only doing their jobs. And on an idea, a set of values, which we call the Republic," he said.
The gunshot victim is said to have improved in hospital, is now conscious and no longer needs an artificial respirator.
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