Money Pas-de-Calais: A kidnapped finance inspector then killed as part of a tax audit

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© Denis Charlet The search section of the Hauts-de-France gendarmerie was seized as part of a Flagrus investigation for assassination.

A banal tax control that turns into drama. A 43-year-old tax agent was killed Tuesday after being kidnapped with a colleague as part of a tax audit from a second-hand dealer (Pas-de-Calais), who then killed himself " by Firearm ”, according to the prosecution. "When the gendarmes arrived, the two men died ," said a source to the AFP, stressing that the gendarmerie was alerted shortly after 6:00 pm " by a witness ". The search section of the Hauts-de-France gendarmerie was seized as part of a flagration investigation for assassination.

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The public prosecutor of Arras, Sylvain Barbier Sainte-Marie, and the prefect of Pas-de-Calais, Jacques Billant, went there.

The victim, principal public finance inspector and chief verification brigade in Pas-de-Calais, was found dead " probably following stabbing ," said the Arras prosecutor's office in a press release . The inspector " who accompanied him, very shocked, was taken care of by the emergency services. His days are not in danger , "he added. According to a source close to the investigation, it was found at the home of the second -hand dealer "L Igotée on a chair ". Both carried out home intervention to verify the accounting of the 46 -year -old man.

"He was an average person"

The second -hand dealer, divorced and father of two children, " had arrived in the village four years ago," the village mayor Eric Bianchin told AFP. “ He had bought a farm in rue de Quéant, where he made sales at his home. He emptied the houses, the garage sale and sold to his house , "he added, his eyes damp behind his glasses. " is a small village, everyone knows each other. I never had a problem with him, he was helpful, he was an average person. It was integrated into the village , "continued the mayor. According to him, the inhabitants " saw him very little ", because " he left very early in the morning for his activity". "Drama Innumerable"

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and Man did his job [...] today, he did not return. , "said Public Accounts Minister Gabriel Attal, who spoke in the middle of the evening in front of the Senate.

The colleagues of the victim, who worked for "

the Departmental Directorate of Public Finance (DDFIP) of Pas-de-Calais and more broadly all public finance agents are upset and mourning ," said Gabriel Attal , evoking " an unnameable drama ". He said he would go to Arras DDFI on Tuesday morning. It is expected at 11:30 am " Tonight, the public service has the face of this brigade chief ", he insisted, before inviting at a moment of meditation " in his homage In the hemicycle.