Anis Amri, the man suspected of driving a truck into a crowd at a Berlin Christmas market Monday, was killed in a shootout in Milan, the Italian interior minister said Friday.

“The person who was killed, there is no doubt that he is Anis Amri,” Marco Minniti told a press conference.

The minster said that at 3 a.m. in Milan, during a regular police patrol, officers stopped Amri. When they asked for his ID, Amri pulled out a gun and shot one of the officers. Police returned fire, killing the suspected terrorist.

The officer who was shot does not have life-threatening injuries and is recovering in hospital. Another officer was unharmed.

“He was the most wanted man in Europe and we immediately identified him and neutralized him. This means our security is working really well,” Minniti said.

Amri, a 24-year-old Tunisian, had links with Italy, where he spent four years in jail.

The minister said he had informed the German federal prosecutor’s office.

Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni told reporters he had informed Merkel of the action by Italian police, which he said underlined the importance of international cooperation in the area of security.

“What happened last night in Milan shows our citizens that the state is present, Italy is present,” said Gentiloni, who voiced his sympathies for the family of an Italian killed in Monday’s attack in Berlin.

The German interior ministry said at a press conference Friday it did not have final confirmation that the dead man was Amri.

“There is no confirmation from our side yet,” a spokesperson for the German government said, but he added that it did appear to be the suspect. “We thank the Italians for the cooperation,” he said.

The spokesperson said it was too early to comment on how Amri managed to evade capture for several days.

“It’s normal to question what can be improved in future events. But at this stage, the investigation is ongoing, not even all victims have been identified.”

According to Sky TG24, the gun used in the shootout is the same one used to kill the Polish driver whose truck was used in the attack in which 12 people were killed and another 48 injured.

According to media reports, Amri entered Italy from Chambéry in France, arriving in Turin at about 9 p.m. Thursday before traveling to Milan.

German federal police had issued a Europe-wide arrest warrant for Amri, offering a €100,000 reward and warning that he could be armed and dangerous.

Suspect on the radar

Amri was known to German authorities and should have been deported, according to local officials earlier this week.

He arrived in Germany in July 2015 and had been “highly mobile,” living in Freiburg, Berlin and North Rhine-Westphalia, the latter region’s interior minister Ralf Jäger said at a press conference Wednesday afternoon.

From February this year, Amri primarily resided in Berlin but his asylum claim was processed in Kleve in North Rhine-Westphalia, Jäger said. The application was denied in June on the grounds that the man did not have valid ID papers.

Amri was considered a “threat” by federal security services, Jäger said. He also said an investigation had been launched by North Rhine-Westphalia security officials, who feared he may have been plotting an attack.

Until Monday’s incident, Germany had been spared the kind of large-scale atrocities suffered by its neighbors in recent years, including France, Belgium, Britain and Spain. German security officials have long insisted that it was only a matter of time before their country was hit too, and they have kept the country on high alert, warning that many German citizens have joined the jihadists in Syria and Iraq, and that some have returned to Germany and may be planning attacks.

Monday’s tragedy in Berlin recalls the July 14 attack in Nice, when 39-year-old Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel drove a truck into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day, killing 85 people and injuring 434. ISIL later claimed responsibility for the attack, as it did for the gun and suicide-bomb attacks in Paris and Brussels.