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Epign A selection of articles related to Epign: In 1995, the GIA Islamist militant group staged a series of attacks against the French public, targeting public transportation. These attacks killed 8 and injured more than 100. Apparently, the attacks were designed to be a broadening of the civil war in Algeria, a former French colony After the tragic events of the Munich massacre during the Olympic Games in 1972, and a mutiny in Clairvaux the next year, France started to study the possible solutions to extremely violent attacks, under the assumptions that these would be extremely difficult to predict and deflect. In 1973, the GIGN was created as a permanent force of men trained and equipped to respond to these kind of threats while minimising risks for the public and hostages, for the members of the unit, and for the attackers themselves. The GIGN became operational .. See this and more articles and videos below.

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* Encyclopedia II - Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale - Structure

The GIGN is divided into four groups: negotiation, special equipment section (mechanics, video, weaponry), a language group (individuals specialized in teaching foreign units), and a technical group which provides the unit with modified and high-tech equipment, by either selecting or designing it. Training includes shooting, marksmanship and hand-to-hand combat techniques (Krav-Maga). Members of the GIGN are widely regarded as having some of the best firearms training in the world. It is for this reason that many of the world's special ...

* Encyclopedia II - Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale - History

After the tragic events of the Munich massacre during the Olympic Games in 1972, and a mutiny in Clairvaux the next year, France started to study the possible solutions to extremely violent attacks, under the assumptions that these would be extremely difficult to predict and deflect. In 1973, the GIGN was created as a permanent force of men trained and equipped to respond to these kind of threats while minimising risks for the public and hostages, for the members of the unit, and for the attackers themselves. The GIGN became operational ...

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Enquete d'action (Commando Marines, EPIGN,SWAT) Partie 2

Enquete d'action sur les commandos marine, l'EPIGN et le SWAT Partie 1 : www.youtube.com Partie 2 : www.youtube.com Partie 3 : w...

femmes d'elite de l'EPIGN (2/3)

reportage envoye special sur les test de selection des femmes de l'EPIGN (escadron parachutiste d'intervention de la gendarmerie...

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GIGN a l'epreuve de la selection[french] (12/12)

reportage des racines et des ailes sur l'entree au GIGN

* Encyclopedia - 1995 bombings in France In 1995, the GIA Islamist militant group staged a series of attacks against the French public, targeting public transportation. These attacks killed 8 and injured more than 100. Apparently, the attacks were designed to be a broadening of the civil war in Algeria, a former French colony. On July 25, 1995, a gas bottle exploded in station Saint Michel of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). 8 were killed and 80 wounded. On August 17, a bomb at the Arc de Triomphe wounded 17 people. On August 26, a huge bomb wa ...

* Encyclopedia II - List of law enforcement agencies - Europe

List of law enforcement agencies - France.

* Encyclopedia II - Recherche Assistance Intervention Dissuasion - Organisation

RAID has a strength of around 60 and is divided into three main sections: Recherche Assistance Intervention Dissuasion - First Section. The first section deals with the usual tasks of special forces: intervention, monitoring, protection. Recherche Assistance Intervention Dissuasion - Second Section. The second section is the Research and Development unit of the RAID. It studies techniques and collects information. This section is divided into three groups: < ...

* Encyclopedia II - Recherche Assistance Intervention Dissuasion - History

RAID has special competences : "Plan Piratair" (for plane hijackings), nuclear sites, the Channel Tunnel, the trains, and other strategic sites. The first intervention of RAID was widely publicised. A madman, calling himself "HB" (for "Human Bomb", in English), and carrying large quantities of explosives, took 21 children hostages in a school in Neuilly. Nicolas Sarkozy, as he was major of Neuilly, managed to obtain the liberation of several children. After 46 hours, the madman fell asleep; men of the RAID crept into the school t ...

* Encyclopedia II - French Gendarmerie - The Gendarmerie Mobile

It is divided into legions, similarly as the Gendarmerie Départementale. Its main responsibilities are crowd and riot control security of public buildings all policing tasks that require large amounts of personnel (Vigipirate counterterrorism patrols, searches in the countryside...). It has specialized units: the group of security of intervention of the Gendarmerie Nationale (GSIGN), consisting of: the intervention group of the Gendarmerie Nationale (GIGN), an ...

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