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

aircraft reached Marseille, the National Gendarmerie Intervention Group (GIGN), a counter-terror unit of the French National Gendarmerie, stormed the plane...

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

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...

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...

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