GIGN VS GSG9 - What is your Favorite Unit? (Motivational video)

The GIGN (French: Groupe d’intervention de la Gendarmerie nationale pronunciation (help·info); transl. “National Gendarmerie Intervention Group“) is the elite tactical unit of the National Gendarmerie of France. Among its missions are counter-terrorism, hostage rescue, surveillance of national threats, protection of government officials, and targeting organized crime.[5] It was established in 1973, shortly after the 1972 Munich massacre saw the killing of 13 Israeli athletes by Palestinian insurgents in Munich, Germany. The GIGN was initially created as a relatively small tactical unit specialized in sensitive hostage situations, but has since grown into a larger force with expanded responsibilities and capabilities. It is now composed of nearly a thousand operators based in Satory (south of Versailles), near Paris (approximately 400 operators), as well as in fourteen regional GIGN branches (antennes du GIGN) located in metropolitan France or in the French overseas territories (approxim