26-year-old Armand Razapour-Millondoub, a Frenchman born in 1997 to Iranian parents, has been identified by French authorities as the perpetrator of yesterday’s murderous attack in the center of Paris, from which a German tourist died and two others were injured.

He is an extremist Muslim known to the authorities who faced psychiatric disorders. During the attack, he shouted “Allah is greatwhile, after his arrest, he declared told police he was angry because “so many Muslims are dying in Afghanistan and Palestine.”

The attacker, who lived with their parents in a suburb of Paris, according to Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, posted on social media video disclaimer for his attack, as sources from the police and security services told AFP.

At this stage, investigators do not know when the video was recorded, but it was posted online “contemporaneously” with the attack, according to the security source.

Armand Mijotowab had links with other extremists and was jailed in 2016 for “planning violent action” – intending to carry out a knife attack in a public place. He was released in 2020.

He was known for his radical Islamism and psychiatric problems.

According to information, the perpetrator had contacts with the Islamic extremist Abdoullakh Anzorov, who decapitated the French professor Samuel Paty in 2020 for showing sketches of Muhammad in his class.

Authorities will now consider whether he was under medical supervision.

The 26-year-old appears “very unstable and very easily influenced”, according to a source from the security services.

“If he was under medical supervision as he should have been and as he has been for some time, that is the question that will be asked,” a police source told AFP.