GIGN

The GIGN (fr: Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale) is a counter-terrorist faction in Counter-Strike Online.

Offical description
France's elite Counter-Terrorist unit, the GIGN, was designed to be a fast response force that could decisively react to any large-scale terrorist incident. Consisting of no more than 100 men, the GIGN has earned its reputation through a history of successful ops.

Overview
The GIGN is the French National Gendarmerie's elite Special Operations counter-terrorism and hostage rescue unit. Its missions include the arrest of armed criminals, in particular those taking hostages, counter-terrorism and dealing with aircraft hijacking and ending prison riots.

Appearance
The GIGN operators in game are suited with blue uniforms with a black Kevlar vest on it and a blue riot helmet. GIGN is suitable for urban operations. The player is recommended to use this player model in maps:
 * Nuke
 * Inferno
 * Office

Weapons and equipment:
These following weapons in game had adopted by the GIGN as their standard weapons: GIGN operatives are seen armed with these weapons in game posters:
 * Belgium FN Five-Seven PDWs
 * Switzerland/Germany SIG P228 self-loading pistols
 * Austria Glock 17 self-loading pistols
 * Italy Benelli M3 combat shotguns
 * Italy Franchi SPAS-12 combat shotguns
 * Germany Heckler &amp; Koch MP5 sub-machine guns
 * Belgium FN P90 PDWs
 * Germany Heckler & Koch MP7A1 PDWs
 * US Colt M4A1 assault rifles
 * Germany Heckler &amp; Koch 416 assault rifles
 * France FAMAS F1 assault rifles
 * Switzerland SIG SG552 assault carbines
 * Switzerland SIG SG550 sniper rifles
 * UK Accuracy International AW sniper rifles
 * Germany Blaser R93 Tactical sniper rifles
 * US Barrett M95 anti-material sniper rifles
 * Belgium FN Minimi light machine guns
 * H&K USP
 * Remington 870
 * H&amp;K MP5
 * Colt M4A1
 * M14 EBR Gold
 * AWP

Characters related

 * Jean Pierre - A GIGN operative introduced in Counter-Strike Online 2.

Trivia

 * The selection icon was taken from Counter-Strike: Condition Zero showing a GIGN operative wielding an M4A1 with the background image of Condition Zero version of Dust.