The GIGN – Groupe d’Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale – was created in the aftermath of the deadly failure to counter the hostage taking of Israeli Olympians at the 1972 Games in Munich. A ...

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 ...

It's been an eventful year already for France's special police units. Three separate "intervention" teams have been called to action since the attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and ...

Elite French forces are leaving nothing to chance before the opening of the Paris Olympics on July 26. Facing a security situation described by the interior ministry as the most challenging in modern ...

On December 24, 1994, Air France Flight 8969 was set for a routine flight from Algiers to Paris. Instead, the passengers and crew spent three days as the hostages of Islamist extremists. They were ...

Bond girl Olga Kurylenko headlines '15 Minutes of War,' a French genre item from French-Canadian director Fred Grivois. By Boyd van Hoeij A bus full of French children is hijacked by ...

The French National Gendarmerie Intervention Group (GIGN) has ordered a new standard issue weapon. It has selected the Bren 2 assault rifle from Czech company CZ. The company told Shephard at the ...