A German man said he is the former Twitter employee who shut down US President Donald Trump’s account for 11 minutes earlier this month, but that the temporary silencing was a “mistake”, TechCrunch reported.

The technology website published an interview with Bahtiyar Duysak on Wednesday. Duysak was a temporary contract worker for Twitter in San Francisco. He deactivated the account on his last day of work at the social network.

Duysak was with customer support, a team that gets alerts when users report bad behaviour, including offensive or illegal tweets and harassment, among other things.

Towards the end of his shift, someone reported Trump’s account. He started the process of deactivating it, closed his computer and left the building, he told TechCrunch. The account was deactivated several hours later.

Duysak said it was not a planned act. “There are millions of people who would take actions against him if they had the possibility. In my case, it was just random,” he said.

Twitter has not yet confirmed if Duysak was the ex-employee who had closed Trump’s account.