Three days later, on the tarmac in Marseille, the passengers were freed by a daring raid that was broadcast on live TV, displaying to the world the unique skills of France's elite GIGN.

France has reportedly unleashed elite ... and targeting organized crime. GIGN units arrived in Marseille on Saturday evening, according to police in Bouches-du-Rhône. It comes after Marseilles ...

or “intervention”: the Police Nationale's elite RAID (a backronym for Recherche, Assistance, Intervention, Dissuasion) unit, and their GIGN counterparts in the gendarmes. France has also ...

France has promised a 20-minute armed ... it's time for unity," Bernard Cazeneuve told members of the GIGN paramilitary police, an elite RAID unit of the national police and the BRI anti-gang ...

A gang linked to the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) captured Air France Flight 8969 at Boumedienne airport in Algiers ... When the plane reached Marseille, a GIGN counter-terrorist unit stormed ...

Ryanair anger after new raid on its offices in France. Photo ... a raid by French gendarmes at his offices at the Marseille-Provence airport and Thursday. The company claims gendarmes prevented ...