Deputies and ministers standing and silent in the hemicycle.
The National Assembly observed a minute of silence on Tuesday in memory of the tax officer killed the day before during a check at a second-hand dealer in Pas-de-Calais, before a tribute on Wednesday in the tax services.
This minute of silence was requested at the opening of the session of questions to the government by the EELV deputy Sandrine Rousseau, joined by the president of the Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet.
The Minister of Public Accounts, Gabriel Attal, had previously announced a tribute to the victim on Wednesday at noon in the Departmental Directorates of Public Finances (DDFiP) of France.
"The Republic mourns one of its own," he said after talking for more than an hour with the victim's colleagues at the tax services in Arras.
It is revolting that a servant of the State, of the Republic, of the French can be (…) killed because he is doing his job.
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“The agents carry out potentially dangerous missions”
"This tragedy bitterly reminds everyone that public finance officers, in particular nomads, carry out potentially dangerous missions", reacted for its part on Tuesday FO-DGFiP in a press release, calling for "learning the lessons of this tragedy to strengthen concretely the protection of personnel”.
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According to a press release from the prosecution on Monday evening, the junk dealer, 46, had kidnapped the victim and a colleague, before killing himself, probably by shooting.
The victim, a 43-year-old senior public finance inspector, was probably stabbed to death, according to the prosecution.
The public prosecutor of Arras must hold a press conference at 4:15 p.m. to provide an update on the investigation while the research section of the Hauts-de-France gendarmerie is seized as part of a flagrance investigation. for assassination.
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