Tag: GIGN
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…
Hamas-Israel War: “For the hostages, time is not necessarily an enemy,” explains a former GIGN negotiator
This Monday, the Israeli army announced that 199 hostages were in the hands of Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Hostages that the terrorist organization kidnapped during its massive attack on…
An armed madman with a chainsaw arrested by the GIGN
Everything returned to normal shortly before 7 p.m. Monday October 2. For several hours, the quiet town of Saint-Ouen-des-Alleux, near Fougères (Ille-et-Vilaine) had been the scene of an unusual affair.…
An armed man entrenched in his home in Saint-Laurent-des-Arbres: what we know about the intervention of the GIGN
Aged about fifty, the madman is entrenched in his home, rue du 11 Novembre. The occupants of a nearby crèche are currently confined. The center of the village of Saint-Laurent-des-Arbres,…
Poitiers: The madman who held four people hostage arrested by the GIGN, no injuries
Four people were sequestered by a dangerous individual who was brought under control in the middle of the afternoon on Monday. He had taken hostage his ex-companion, his son and…
“The idea was to asphyxiate the area”… How the GIGN tracked down the man suspected of having killed a gendarme
The hunt lasted 14 days. On April 8, a gendarmerie helicopter landed in the heart of the Guyanese tropical forest. Six heavily armed GIGN soldiers cautiously approach a young man…
Interpellation of the man suspected of having killed a GIGN gendarme
The investigation has just taken a big step in Guyana on the death of a GIGN gendarme during an operation against illegal gold panning on March 25. A man suspected…
A GIGN gendarme shot dead, Emmanuel Macron salutes his memory
The police bereaved this Saturday. A GIGN gendarme was shot and killed in Guyana while taking part in an operation to combat illegal gold panning, we learned on Saturday from…
GIGN, real estate agent and firearm … Update on the two mysterious deaths near Perpignan
In the space of two days, the bodies of two men were found five kilometers away from each other, in the Pyrénées-Orientales. One in Canohès, the other in Soler, two…
The GIGN arrests a man on the run for ten months
The arrest mobilized large resources but was carried out “without resistance”. A 35-year-old man, wanted by the courts for ten months, was arrested early Wednesday morning by the gendarmerie and…