French antiques dealer kills his tax inspector

PARIS (Reuters) - A French antiques dealer in northern France has killed his tax inspector and then killed himself, local authorities said on Tuesday.

Arras prosecutor Sylvain Barbier Sainte Mairie told reporters that two tax inspectors, a man and a woman, had come to the suspect's house on Monday to audit the accounts of his company a "brocante" shop dealing in antiques and second-hand goods, where he had threatened them with a gun and tied them up.