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Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale

The GIGN (Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale) is the French Gendarmerie's elite intervention group (SWAT team).

Its missions include:

• the arrest of gunmen, in particular those taking hostages;
• counterterrorism, including airplane hijacking.

It is headquartered in Satory, west of Paris. Along with the EPIGN it forms the GSIGN (Group of security and intervention of the Gendarmerie).

Past actions included:

• the assault on the Ouvéa cave;
• the assault on the hijacked Air France Flight 8969 at Christmas 1994;

Training includes:

• shooting and marksmanship;
• combat sports, including krav-maga;

Optional competencies: police dogs, diving, parachutism, explosives, survival, the education in those various capabilities being dispensed by the appropriate training centers of the French military.

See also

• EPIGN
• RAID

Related links

• Unofficial page, officially endorsed
• Official page

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