On Saturday, a man shouting “Allahu Akbar” killed a German tourist and injured two others in central Paris near the iconic Eiffel Tower.

The attacker said that he was ‘upset’ over the death of Muslims in Afghanistan and Palestine. The name of the attacker has not been revealed yet.

“The police have just courageously arrested an assailant attacking passers-by in Paris, around the Quai de Grenelle. One deceased person and one injured person were treated by the Paris Fire Brigade. Please avoid the area,” France’s Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said in a post on X.

Talking to the media, the Minister informed the attack took place at around 7 PM GMT when the man attacked a couple with a knife. The man was then chased by police, he then attacked two other people with a hammer before police arrested him.

Darmanin said that the assailant shouted “Allahu Akbar” slogans and told police he was upset because “so many Muslims are dying in Afghanistan and in Palestine”.

The assailant had been sentenced to four years in prison in 2016 for planning another attack and was on the French security services’ watch list, the Interior Minister added.

The anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office said it was in charge of the investigation.