BULLECOURT. Gabriel Attal announced Monday, November 21 that a tax officer was killed during a tax audit in Bullecourt. The person behind the murder would then have committed suicide, but the circumstances of the tragedy remain unclear.
[Mis à jour le 21 novembre 2022 à 23h45] “A terrible tragedy occurred that day”. It is with these words that Gabriel Attal, Minister for Action and Public Accounts, announced on the evening of Monday November 21, 2022 that a head of the verification brigade of the departmental directorate of public finances of Pas-de- Calais was killed in the context of a tax audit, according to information reported by BFM TV. The tragedy occurred in the village of Bullecourt, located in Pas-de-Calais, which was cordoned off on Monday evening, as reported news.fr. The media adds that the person behind the murder would then have committed suicide.
According to information fromnews.fr, the gendarmerie and the firefighters intervened around 8 p.m. Monday evening, at rue Quéant in the village of Bullecourt, a small town of 250 inhabitants, to help an injured person in a dwelling. When they arrived at the scene, they discovered the body of a man in his forties. According to information from the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service (Sdis), he was killed with a knife.
The police then decided to cordon off the village, because an individual would have barricaded himself with his weapon in the house where the body had been found. This maniac would then have been found dead at the bottom of the house, reports news.fr, who adds that he would have committed suicide using a firearm. Gabriel Attal also clarified Monday evening before the Senate that the 43-year-old agent was accompanied by a fellow auditor. She was assaulted but is “fortunately alive”, said the minister, who added that this woman is “deeply shocked”.
No official communication on the drama has been made for the moment. The security device was lifted around 9 p.m., indicates The voice of the North, who adds that the Arras prosecutor’s office has announced that it will speak on the facts during the day on Tuesday. The prefect of Pas-de-Calais, Jacques Billant, as well as the mayor of Bullecourt, Eric Bianchin, were both present on the spot Monday evening. “This unspeakable tragedy tears the lives of his loved ones, his family […] All public finance officers are upset tonight. It is also about them that I want to think and I will go to their side tomorrow morning”, concluded the Minister of Action and Public Accounts, according to remarks reported by BFM TV. He then asked for a moment of meditation in the Senate.