A Jewish man who stormed a Paris synagogue dressed as a jihadist and shouting “Allahu Akbar” was summoned to the police to explain his actions and later released, the French media reported.

The man in his 40s, wearing a djellaba – a loose-fitting Moroccan robe, and carrying toy Kalashnikov rifles, entered a Chabad Lubavitch synagogue in Vincennes, a Paris suburb, during the Purim holiday.

“I wanted to lighten the mood, I think I made a big mistake,” he told a newspaper. ‘’Purim is a special party where you can let go and drink. I had an Arab costume with a red and white headscarf and a Kalashnikov. Arriving at the synagogue, I told the soldiers that it was a fake. I laughed with them. I shouted Allah Akbar.’’

The incident occurred two days after suicide bombers affiliated with Islamic State killed at least 34 people in attacks at Brussels Airport and a metro station in the center of the Belgian capital.