The MR73 would become the emblem of the GIGN and was quickly put to use in several successful hostage rescue missions that the group completed. GIGN adopted an 8"-barreled version of the MR73 as a ...

GIGN blends military capability with law enforcement precision, making it one of the world’s most effective paramilitary ...

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.

French President François Mitterrand congratulates GIGN agents who freed Air France Flight 8969, December 27, 1994. Alain Nogues/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images ...

Members of the GIGN (National Gendarmerie Intervention Group) sit in a helicopter flying over Dammartin-en-Goele where a hostage-taking was underway after police hunting the Islamist brothers who ...

Though the three units are separate, RAID and GIGN especially work closely together. In the late 2000s, French Minister of the Interior Michèle Alliot-Marie initiated joint exercises.

Founded after the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, in which 11 Israelis died in an attack by a Palestinian militant group, the GIGN is responsible for freeing hostages, counter-terrorism operations ...