GIGN, as the group is known, is the French police's elite counterterrorism unit, similar to the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team. It specializes in counterterrorism and hostage-rescue and has become ...

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 ...

GIGN's weapons and technology include some of the most advanced equipment in the world, some of it highly experimental in nature, along with some very low-tech but proven tools.

Three officers of France's GIGN counterterrorism unit conduct a live-fire exercise near Dijon, France. Mac William Bishop / NBC News Aug. 23, 2016, 5:44 AM EDT / Updated Aug. 23, 2016, 12:56 PM EDT ...

GIGN. A counter-terrorism unit of the French military, GIGN played a lead role in the operation against the suspects in the Charlie Hebdo shooting, Said and Cherif Kouachi.

Ad Vitam, “For Life” in Latin, was the motto Franck’s father carried with him into the GIGN, and Franck followed him into the ranks of the elite unit.

The GIGN officers yelled at him to stop and fired warning shots to deter him, she said. But when he took aim again, they responded with a “neutralization shot” to his abdomen.

GIGN adopted an 8"-barreled version of the MR73 as a compact, intermediate range sniping system. Photo credit: Groupe d'Intervention Gendarmerie Nationale. ...

When the GIGN intervened at the address where the cell phone was located, they found Balland alive but wounded: furious at not receiving the ransom, his kidnappers had cut off his finger and sent ...

GIGN serves as France's primary counterterrorism and hostage rescue unit, and will be providing security over the Olympics. “Ovzon’s advanced mobile satellite terminals and high-performing satellite ...