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 arrests, and ...

With fuel reserves running low, the plane could only get as far as Marseille, where the French special forces, the GIGN were ready. Thierry Leveque, a member of the GIGN described the scene ...