A tax audit turns into a nightmare in France: a junk dealer kidnaps two tax inspectors, kills one, then commits suicide

The two of them "were carrying out an intervention at home to check the accounts" of the company of a 46-year-old man, who then sequestered and tied them up, the statement said. "The respondent would have killed himself with a firearm," according to the prosecutor. "This man was simply doing his job (...) Today, he has not returned. He was killed in the context of this tax audit," said the Minister of Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal, who spoke in mid-evening before the Senate.

The victim was head of brigade verification in the Pas-de-Calais, he said. According to a source close to the investigation, the inspector who accompanied him was found at the home of the broker "tied to a chair and deeply shocked. "At the time of arrival of the police, the two men were dead," said a second source close to the investigation, stressing that the police had been alerted shortly after 18H00 "by a witness. The research section of the gendarmerie of Hauts-de-France was seized in the context of a flagrante delicto investigation for murder.