Extreme Missions: The GIGN and EPIGN in Operation 1976–2017
Extreme Missions: The GIGN and EPIGN in Operation 1976–2017
Extreme Missions: The GIGN and EPIGN in Operation 1976–2017
Extreme Missions: The GIGN and EPIGN in Operation 1976–2017
Extreme Missions: The GIGN and EPIGN in Operation 1976–2017
Extreme Missions: The GIGN and EPIGN in Operation 1976–2017
Extreme Missions: The GIGN and EPIGN in Operation 1976–2017
Extreme Missions: The GIGN and EPIGN in Operation 1976–2017

Extreme Missions: The GIGN and EPIGN in Operation 1976–2017

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February 1976: the gendarmerie deployed to free hostages in Djibouti with the Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale (GIGN), created by Lieutenant Christian Prouteau. Its sister unit, the Escadron Parachutiste d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale (EPIGN), subsequently developed expertise in the protection of diplomats in war zones.

 

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In 2007, the GIGN and EPIGN were merged into a single GIGN of 400 men and women, whose level of overseas deployment has since intensified further.

From Kabul to Tripoli, via Baghdad and Sarajevo, this unprecedented book illustrates from the inside the least publicised face of the GIGN: missions conducted abroad. These are no less dangerous than those carried out on French soil, given the isolation of the gendarmes in war zones, and are above all far more numerous. Protection of diplomats in war zones, tracking of war criminals in the Balkans or mercenaries in the Comoros, hostage rescue in Djibouti and the Indian Ocean, pursuit of jihadists in Afghanistan… the GIGN and EPIGN have taken part in all of this since their creation, most often in the greatest secrecy.

The author: 

Jean-Marc Tanguy has met several dozen veterans of the GIGN and EPIGN since 1996, some sharing a few anecdotes and others revealing considerably more under the cover of anonymity, so that the commitment of their comrades might become known.

Among those who were able to testify on the record: former commanders Denis Favier and Frédéric Gallois.

Author 1
Jean Marc Tanguy
Publication date
March 2018
Pages
140
Language
French
Publisher
HISTORY & COLLECTIONS

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