The GIGN, or National Gendarmerie Intervention Group, is one of the world’s most specialized and secretive tactical response units. Tasked with counterterrorism, hostage rescue, high-risk arrests, and ...

With divisions for intervention, observation, protection, and sniping, the unit serves both in France and abroad. Admission is reserved for seasoned gendarmes, and fewer than 10% of volunteers make it ...

The co-founder of French crypto unicorn Ledger and his wife have been rescued after an outlandish Parisian kidnapping attempt ...