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Inside the GIGN: Training, history, and the specialized forces that made France’s paramilitary unit world-renowned
Delve into the intense training, organization, and operational specialties of the GIGN. From its intervention force and observation units to snipers, divers, negotiators, and protection teams, ...
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 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 ...
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