Tag: GIGN
Suspect shot dead during hostage-taking
A man took refuge with hostages in a bank in Clermont-l’Hérault this Wednesday morning after a failed robbery attempt. The man, heavily armed, had “on him a revolver, a handgun…
The retired ex-police officer indicted for “attempted homicides”
The man arrested on the night of Monday to Tuesday after having fired a rifle at gendarmes, causing three minor injuries, while he was holed up at his home in…
Blessy: the GIGN deployed to try to control a man holed up in a house
Christmas day under high tension this Monday in Blessy (Pas-de-Calais). During the night from Sunday to Monday, a 38-year-old man, drunk, took refuge with a rifle in a house in…
An ex-police officer, entrenched, shoots a rifle at gendarmes
A man holed up in his home fired a rifle at gendarmes in Blessy (Pas-de-Calais) this Monday, causing three minor injuries, the Hauts-de-France gendarmerie told AFP. “Around fifty gendarmes have…
Brother of Bataclan killer arrested and soon deported
The procedure is speeding up for Karim Mohamed-Aggad. The brother of one of the Bataclan killers was arrested on Friday in Alsace, two weeks after having been stripped of French…
“It can help us in many cases”… GIGN negotiators at the bedside of elected officials
At the Congress of Mayors, In a small room at the Parc des Expositions, around twenty elected officials took their places. Facing them, leader Antoine, of the GIGN national negotiation…
How did the police identify and locate the suspects?
Two days after the death of Thomas, 16, in Drôme, the investigation accelerated. Seven suspects were arrested in the “surroundings of Toulouse”, the Minister of the Interior announced this Tuesday.…
What is “Tempête 60”, the gendarmerie’s XXL operation in the department?
They are everywhere. Since last Monday, the Oise department has been on red alert for a particularly targeted storm. If ordinary mortals feel nothing more than a light breeze, bordering…
At the heart of a GIGN assault thanks to virtual reality… “It gives you chills”
The young girl clings to the seat. A few minutes later, she removes the virtual reality headset. “It gives you chills, it really feels like it. It gave me goosebumps,”…
Man in custody after killing three people
A man killed his mother and her niece with a knife, then another person in a bank branch, on Saturday in La Possession (Reunion), before being arrested by GIGN gendarmes…