The GIGN (French: Groupe d'intervention de la Gendarmerie nationale pronunciation; transl. "National Gendarmerie Intervention Group") is the elite police...

Gendarmerie Intervention Group (GIGN) with a central unit and fourteen regional branches called AGIGNs (French: Antennes du GIGN). Their missions include counter-terrorism...

aircraft reached Marseille, the National Gendarmerie Intervention Group (GIGN), a tier one counterterrorism and hostage rescue unit of the French National...

Paris. RAID is the National Police counterpart of the National Gendarmerie's GIGN. Both units share responsibility for the French territory. Since 2009, RAID...

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...

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...

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'...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Islamic fundamentalist terrorists and the raid to free the hostages by the GIGN, the elite counter-terrorism unit of the French National Gendarmerie. Vincent...

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...

was appointed commander of the National Gendarmerie Intervention Group (GIGN). In 1994 he was promoted to chef d'escadron (major). In 1994, he commanded...

"La nouvelle arme des observateurs tireurs de la gendarmerie" (in French). GIGN. Archived from the original on November 7, 2006. Retrieved January 29, 2017...

corresponding units in the civilian police), counter-terrorism and hostage rescue (GIGN, again along with some corresponding units in the civilian police), maritime...

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...

after authorities had taken a decision overnight, members of the Hubert and GIGN commando, with five helicopters, took possession of the ship. The striking...

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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Forces MP5A3 9mm  France Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale (GIGN) MP5K _ Certain specialized units within the French Army MP5A5, MP5SD3 9mm...

MP7A1 − 2012  Estonia ESTSOF − − −  France French special forces, DGSE SA, GIGN MP7A1 − −  Georgia Ministry of Internal Affairs − − −  Germany German Army...

GIGN operators using a modern assault ladder installed on the roof of a Sherpa Light armored vehicle...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

March 18, 2011. Micheletti, Eric (September 30, 2004). Le GIGN: Trente Ans d'Actions [The GIGN: Thirty Years of Actions] (in French). Paris: Histoire &...