The GIGN (French: Groupe d'intervention de la Gendarmerie nationale pronunciation; transl. "National Gendarmerie Intervention Group") is the elite police...
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Gendarmerie Intervention Group (GIGN) with a central unit and fourteen regional branches called AGIGNs (French: Antennes du GIGN). Their missions include counter-terrorism...
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Air France Flight 8969 (category GIGN missions)
aircraft reached Marseille, the National Gendarmerie Intervention Group (GIGN), a tier one counterterrorism and hostage rescue unit of the French National...
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Paris. RAID is the National Police counterpart of the National Gendarmerie's GIGN. Both units share responsibility for the French territory. Since 2009, RAID...
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Grand Mosque seizure (category GIGN missions)
aid from France, which responded by dispatching advisory units from the GIGN. After French operatives provided them with a special type of tear gas that...
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received its first batch of CZ BREN 2 modular assault rifles. In 2017, French GIGN received 68 CZ BREN 2 assault rifles chambered in 7.62×39mm and is expected...
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of the Gendarmerie Nationale. He was involved in the organisation of the GIGN and the GSPR. Prouteau graduated from Saint-Cyr, the French army's officers'...
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as for its offensive role and use by French police tactical units such as GIGN and the National Police's RAID. It has also seen service with military, police...
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Ouvéa cave hostage taking (category GIGN missions)
public prosecutor who had been sent to negotiate, seven members of the French GIGN military unit and a regular army lieutenant. They demanded talks with the...
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Army on French soil are fulfilled by units of the Departmental Gendarmerie. GIGN (Groupe d'intervention de la Gendarmerie nationale) is one of the two premier...
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as for its offensive role and use by French police tactical units such as GIGN and the National Police's RAID) that Manurhin acquired its notoriety. In...
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The Assault (2010 film) (category GIGN)
Islamic fundamentalist terrorists and the raid to free the hostages by the GIGN, the elite counter-terrorism unit of the French National Gendarmerie. Vincent...
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Control Brigade), and the Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale ("GIGN") special-operations unit. The A.M.D. was made in two versions, the first...
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was appointed commander of the National Gendarmerie Intervention Group (GIGN). In 1994 he was promoted to chef d'escadron (major). In 1994, he commanded...
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"La nouvelle arme des observateurs tireurs de la gendarmerie" (in French). GIGN. Archived from the original on November 7, 2006. Retrieved January 29, 2017...
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corresponding units in the civilian police), counter-terrorism and hostage rescue (GIGN, again along with some corresponding units in the civilian police), maritime...
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Tontouta International Airport. More than 600 gendarmes, including a hundred GIGN operatives were set to take part in the operation. On 19 May, French authorities...
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MS Pascal Paoli (section Boarding by GIGN (2005))
after authorities had taken a decision overnight, members of the Hubert and GIGN commando, with five helicopters, took possession of the ship. The striking...
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A vehicle used by GIGN featuring a mechanical assault ladder mounted on its roof, essentially a modern version of a siege tower...
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French Army SG 551 SG 551 LB _ _ National Gendarmerie Intervention Group (GIGN) of the National Gendarmerie SG 553 SOW _ _ Germany GSG 9 of the German...
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Forces MP5A3 9mm France Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale (GIGN) MP5K _ Certain specialized units within the French Army MP5A5, MP5SD3 9mm...
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MP7A1 − 2012 Estonia ESTSOF − − − France French special forces, DGSE SA, GIGN MP7A1 − − Georgia Ministry of Internal Affairs − − − Germany German Army...
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GIGN operators using a modern assault ladder installed on the roof of a Sherpa Light armored vehicle...
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provide security for the FIFA World Cup soccer games in Mexico City. France's GIGN trained the group in special weapons and counter-terrorism tactics. On 1...
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forces, aided by French special ops units. According to Lawrence Wright, the GIGN commandos did first convert to Islam prior to the raid. Most of those responsible...
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Parachute Intervention Squadron of the National Gendarmerie (category GIGN)
Versailles-Satory with its sister unit GIGN. Besides its primary mission of providing heavy support and reinforcement to GIGN, EPIGN soon developed its own set...
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Rebellion (2011 film) (category GIGN)
overseas territory, 30 policemen are taken hostage by a group of separatists. GIGN captain Philippe Legorjus is sent to negotiate with the group's leader, Alphonse...
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d'information sur les prisons". prison.eu.org. Retrieved 2023-03-28. "Le "GIGN de la pénitentiaire" a fait ses preuves". LEFIGARO (in French). 2010-10-13...
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Security. Similar units include the FBI Hostage Rescue Team and the French GIGN. The SEF was established in 1972; its main job was to control riots and demonstration...
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March 18, 2011. Micheletti, Eric (September 30, 2004). Le GIGN: Trente Ans d'Actions [The GIGN: Thirty Years of Actions] (in French). Paris: Histoire &...
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