"The hostage taker has been arrested. There are no casualties", Darmanin wrote on Twitter.
The minister thanked the police for carrying out the operation.
A Sputnik correspondent reported from the scene on Monday evening, that the attacker took two women hostage in a shop in the d'Aligre quarter of the French capital. According to the Paris police, the hostage-taker released one of them six hours later.
The man is known to be mentally ill, according to the French BMFTV news channel.