When terrorist call…French GIGN answers

When terrorist call…French GIGN answers

The National Gendarmerie Intervention Group, commonly abbreviated GIGN (French: Groupe d’Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale), is a special operations unit of the French Armed Forces. It is part of the National Gendarmerie and is trained to perform counter-terrorist and hostage rescue missions in France or anywhere else in the world.

 The GIGN was formed in 1973. on 1 September 2007, a major reorganization took place. The original GIGN absorbed the Gendarmerie Parachute Squadron (EPIGN) and the thirty gendarmes of the Presidential Security Group (GSPR) to form a “new” expanded GIGN.

 RAID is a similar intervention force directly under the management of the national police force and of which the geographic competence which includes the 21 divisions (“arrondissements”) of Paris. RAID is also the leader unit of the FIPN which includes all the GIPN and the BRI of the Prefecture de Police de Paris.

Long-story short, the post is primarily GIGN but more important, this post goes out to the bad-a&& French Special Forces.