[Chiou:] To France now and the capture of the man suspected in a series of shooting incidents in Paris. Abdelhakim Dekhar was arrested on Wednesday night in a Paris suburb. Police allege he shot a photographer at the newspaper, "Liberation," on Monday, gravely wounding him. Dekhar is also suspected of walking into a TV station last Friday and threatening journalists with a gun there. For more now on this arrest, senior international correspondent Jim Bittermann joins us live from Paris. Jim, what else can you tell us about this man?
[Jim Bittermann, Cnn Sr. Intl. Correspondent:] Well, basically, he's got a fairly long track record as far as the police are concerned. It goes back to almost 20 years, to 1994, when he was arrested and convicted of supplying a weapon that was used in another shooting spree in Paris, and that shooting spree, a young couple went around with a sawed-off shotgun and killed three policemen and two other people in 1994. They were convicted. He was convicted of aiding them to the extent that he had supplied the shotgun. He spent four years in prison for that and then kind of disappeared off the radar, although he appears to have left the country and went to London, worked in London for a brief time. He came back here sometime in the summer and was living here this summer and then went on his own shooting spree in the last couple of days here, starting with the incident on Friday at BFM Television and the shooting at the newspaper and bank on Monday. Police wasted no time in tracking him down; they had DNA evidence that they recovered from all of the various crime scenes and were able to make matches to his DNA. When they found him, he was, in fact, was in a parking lot, in a semi-comatose state. He apparently, according to the French interior minister, had tried to commit suicide. He has now since come around and police are beginning to question him. The Paris prosecutor held a news conference a short while ago. And in that news conference, he said that back in 1994, in fact, the perpetrator, the gunmen, Dekhar, had, in fact, shown some psychiatric disorderly signs. Here is what he said.
[Unidentified Male:] In his psychiatric expertise, there was there was no he was not shown as being mad; in fact, in no psychiatric abnormality; it was just that the experts noted at the time, given the speech tendencies of being a possible what could be called obsessive.
[Bittermann:] And in fact, that's one of the things that came out in a suicide note that he left, Dekhar left, when he tried to commit suicide last night. That note was described by a prosecutor as kind of rambling and delusionary with references to fascist plots and the manipulations carried out by the media. In any case, he is now in custody and is being questioned, Pauline.
[Chiou:] All right. Thank you very much, Jim, for the latest on this arrest there in Paris. Now let's turn to Poland. As we told you on Wednesday, the prime minister has shuffled his cabinet, and this man is the new finance minister. He is an economist with no background in politics, but Poland's economy has grown since the collapse of the Soviet Union. And as John Defterios explains, it's spent much of that time under the radar of much of the world.
[John Defterios, Cnn Correspondent:] It all began with a BRIC over a decade ago, an acronym for the fast-growing emerging markets of Brazil, Russia, India and China. Adding South Africa, the BRICS spawned a new political voice on the world stage. Then came a handful of others: CIVETS, MIST, MINT and theN11. With every new wordplay, a new group of hot emerging markets took center stage; new, must-have investments in global finance. Yet one emerging market continues to fly under the radar.
[Ryszard Petru, Polish Economist's Association:] So when you look globally at emerging markets, usually you might name BRICS or Asia; usually you do not look at Poland.
[Miroslaw Szczepanski, Warsaw Stock Exchange:] Sometimes we have such a feeling that they look at Central and Eastern Europe.
[Defterios:] But while the likes of China and Brazil or Indonesia and Vietnam garner the headlines, Poland has quietly taken care of business. Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, its economy has grown on average between 4 percent and 5 percent a year. It's the only European Union country to avoid recession since the global financial crisis hit back in 2008. And as a sign of Poland's economic health, the Warsaw Stock Exchange played host to the largest number of IPOs in Europe last year. It's an enviable track record. And when added to its geographic location, competitive labor costs, sizable local market and educated workforce, it's hard to see how Poland goes so unnoticed.
[Szczepanski:] We can say that our market is a little bit undervalued.
[Petru:] Frankly, sometimes, Poland behaves differently than emerging market countries.
[Defterios:] Not everyone has missed Poland's economic story; the likes of Cadbury Schweppes, Twinings, Electrolux, Credit Suisse and Dell have all moved factories to the country in recent years. But the investment trend in emerging markets is, for example, to go from here in the Middle East to Far East Asia or south into Africa, where growth is ticking away at 6 percent to 7 percent. That level of expansion is encouraging foreign direct investment, although Poland sits within a market of better than a half-billion consumers.
[Petru:] We do not experience the growth like new emerging markets, like 5 percent or 7 percent like in China. But we still have much better than average European growth.
[Defterios:] The IMF forecasts Poland will grow by 2.4 percent next year, not enough, perhaps, to put the P of Poland in the next acronym of the world's hottest emerging markets, but enough to make the last 20 years Poland's best period of sustained economic growth and give it the status of a leading emerging market John Defterios, CNN, Dubai.
[Chiou:] Just after the break, a giant Boeing cargo plane is stranded in the state of Kansas. It landed at the wrong airport and now it's stuck. How did this happen? We'll have the details, coming up.