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Tax officer killed: the Legion of Honor awarded to Ludovic Montuelle posthumously, announces Attal

2022-11-27T08:32:41.767Z


The 43-year-old chief inspector of public finances was killed last Monday during a tax audit at a second-hand goods dealer in Bullecourt.


"

It's an attack on the Republic

."

In an interview published this Saturday, November 26 in

Le Parisien

, Gabriel Attal, Minister Delegate for Public Accounts, announced that he would award the Legion of Honor to the principal inspector of public finances who was killed by a self-employed entrepreneur last week. .

We have decided to award Ludovic Montuelle the Legion of Honor posthumously with the distinction Death in the service of the nation

,” Gabriel Attal told Le

Parisien

.

This attack

“stunned the French and upset the public finance officers who say to themselves: it could have been me.

»

Read alsoInsults, spitting, inappropriate gestures … The daily life under tension of tax officials

The Minister of Public Accounts also explained that he was working “

to change the working environment of agents

”.

From my discussions with them, several questions have already arisen.

Should we continue to move when the headquarters of a company is a home?

Under what conditions of protection?

We will move forward with their unions

,” he said.

Last Monday, the 43-year-old civil servant went to the home of a 46-year-old second-hand dealer, accompanied by an inspector to carry out an audit of the accounts.

The junk dealer then kidnapped the two agents before killing the inspector and then shooting himself.

This act aroused great emotion in public opinion and the profession.

Source: lefigaro

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