Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The National Gendarmerie Intervention Group, commonly abbreviated GIGN (French: Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale), is a special operations unit of the French Armed Forces. It is part of the National Gendarmerie and is trained to perform counter-terrorist and hostage rescue missions in France or anywhere else in the world.The GIGN was formed in 1973. On 1 September 2007, a major reorganization took place. The original GIGN absorbed the Gendarmerie Parachute Squadron (EPIGN) and the thirty gendarmes of the Presidential Security Group (GSPR) to form a \"new\" expanded GIGN.There are now three distinct parts to the unit: Intervention force (the original GIGN) Observation & search force (from the former EPIGN) Security & protection force (from the former EPIGN and gendarmes from the GSPR)"@en }
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- National_Gendarmerie_Intervention_Group abstract "The National Gendarmerie Intervention Group, commonly abbreviated GIGN (French: Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale), is a special operations unit of the French Armed Forces. It is part of the National Gendarmerie and is trained to perform counter-terrorist and hostage rescue missions in France or anywhere else in the world.The GIGN was formed in 1973. On 1 September 2007, a major reorganization took place. The original GIGN absorbed the Gendarmerie Parachute Squadron (EPIGN) and the thirty gendarmes of the Presidential Security Group (GSPR) to form a \"new\" expanded GIGN.There are now three distinct parts to the unit: Intervention force (the original GIGN) Observation & search force (from the former EPIGN) Security & protection force (from the former EPIGN and gendarmes from the GSPR)".