GIGN

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.

Battlefield 3
The GIGN in Battlefield 3 appear in the mission Comrades trying to stop the PLR insurgents and the GRU operatives Dmitri Mayakovsky, Vladimir and Kiril, who were attempting to retrieve a nuclear device from the PLR. A unit of the GIGN, Alpha Team appears in the co-op mission, Drop 'Em Like Liquid.