Ten years ago : GIGN assault at Marseille

[Galileo]

26 december 1994, the GIGN storm the Air France airplane at Marseille, killing the 5 terrorists who planed to crash the plane on the Effeil tower in Paris..

http://www.specialoperations.com/Counterterrorism/gign.html (in english)

http://le.cos.free.fr/marignan.htm (in french)

[roland]

26 december 1994, the GIGN storm the Air France airplane at Marseille, killing the 5 terrorists who planed to crash the plane on the Effeil tower in Paris..

http://www.specialoperations.com/Counterterrorism/gign.html (in english)

http://le.cos.free.fr/marignan.htm (in french)

I remember quite well. Just the chrismas day.. Fortunately the plane had to land in Marseille for refuelling !
At this time France was the only Western country to fight the Wahaby/Salafist terror.
The Americans were making friend with the Talebans, and the terrorist group used to refuge in UK or Germany.
From this time, lets not forget our Algerian and Maroccan friends. We helped each other a lot and they suffered much more than us or any Western country, even America, because of those fanatic bastards.

[Gatling]

That was a spectacular and daring assault , good post, thanx

[BigBaribal]

Btw, the terrorists planned to crash their aircraft on Paris, just like for the 9-11!

So, the GIGN and the French government did in the circumstances a very good job.

[mack pl]

I remember that some French(probably Fant.) posted here some link, with video about this assault, can you help me?Or maybe Im wrong :roll:

TIA

[hood]

Ah... all nice and clean again. :)

[Azide]

Whats the "Prince Gate" operation by SAS referenced in the first link, i searched the same site but nothing came up..?

[quorthon]

During this one the stairs to the plane moved and they had to jump to get on board, right?

And the pilot jumped out the window, down on the tarmac?

[PELASGOS]

Good op since the hostages were ok but GIGN had dead menbers and

covered it.

[Galileo]

No GIGN member dead, just one with bad injuries on a hand (8 other wounded), 13 passengers with minor injuries and 3 member of the flight staff with wounds.
the only dead was the young chief of the french embassy a Alger who was executed on the algerian airport.
and sure the 4 Terrorists.

[PELASGOS]

Yes this is the OFFICIAL list . I repeat myself , there were DEAD!!!!

[Cardinal]

Whats the "Prince Gate" operation by SAS referenced in the first link, i searched the same site but nothing came up..?

Princess Gate, or Operation Nimrod. The storming of the Iranian Embassy in London by the SAS in 1980.

http://newssearch.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/5/newsid_2510000/2510873.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/uk/2000/iranian_embassy_siege/default.stm

[fantassin]

I think www.gign.org had a video of the assault at some point; not sure it's still there....

[eighty2]

26 december 1994, the GIGN storm the Air France airplane at Marseille, killing the 5 terrorists who planed to crash the plane on the Effeil tower in Paris..

http://www.specialoperations.com/Counterterrorism/gign.html (in english)

http://le.cos.free.fr/marignan.htm (in french)

I remember quite well. Just the chrismas day.. Fortunately the plane had to land in Marseille for refuelling !
At this time France was the only Western country to fight the Wahaby/Salafist terror.
The Americans were making friend with the Talebans, and the terrorist group used to refuge in UK or Germany.From this time, lets not forget our Algerian and Maroccan friends. We helped each other a lot and they suffered much more than us or any Western country, even America, because of those fanatic bastards.

How ironic, now the roles are reversed 180 degrees...

[BlackRain]

This tactical action is an excellent example of professionalism. Great work GIGN!

[Zarathustra]

This tactical action is an excellent example of professionalism. Great work GIGN!

:cantbeli:

First positive comments by BlackRain about France, at least to my knowledge.
Yep, they did a pretty job, and saved a lot of life...

[Azide]

Actualy, after reading the story, its amazing the way every thing turned out. The pilots were exteremly luck to not be shot by freindly fire. The operation was not so smooth as planed, with that huge firefight that broke out.

[Milkman]

This tactical action is an excellent example of professionalism. Great work GIGN!

:cantbeli:

First positive comments by BlackRain about France, at least to my knowledge.
Yep, they did a pretty job, and saved a lot of life...
Don't be such a troll, France has done plety of good things... just not recently! :P

[roland]

26 december 1994, the GIGN storm the Air France airplane at Marseille, killing the 5 terrorists who planed to crash the plane on the Effeil tower in Paris..

http://www.specialoperations.com/Counterterrorism/gign.html (in english)

http://le.cos.free.fr/marignan.htm (in french)

I remember quite well. Just the chrismas day.. Fortunately the plane had to land in Marseille for refuelling !
At this time France was the only Western country to fight the Wahaby/Salafist terror.
The Americans were making friend with the Talebans, and the terrorist group used to refuge in UK or Germany.From this time, lets not forget our Algerian and Maroccan friends. We helped each other a lot and they suffered much more than us or any Western country, even America, because of those fanatic bastards.

How ironic, now the roles are reversed 180 degrees...

So you mean France don't fight Wahaby/Salafist terror and give refuge to terrorist is it that ? what a breaking news, you are going to become rich with such an info. But I'm affraid any decent media (I'm not talking about Fox or any Murdoch's media here) would ask for some evidence you understand that ? can you share what you have with us ?

[OldRecon]

Actualy, after reading the story, its amazing the way every thing turned out. The pilots were exteremly luck to not be shot by freindly fire. The operation was not so smooth as planed, with that huge firefight that broke out.
The operation was apparently executed based on an "immediate action plan". I.e. you have one (or rather several I suppose) "main plan(s)" that you aim for carrying out in as favourable conditions to the hostage release force as possible in case the hostage takers (or terrorists if you like) can't be waited out.
Besides that you have an (or several) "immediate action plan" (or "emergency plan" if you like it that way) in case hostage release force have to act under less than optimum conditions due to sudden changes in behaviour of hostage takers.
Due to their quick reaction responsive nature carry a greater factor of unknowns and thus risk with them than "a main plan". Thus potential for "friction" in carrying out an "immediate plan" is greater.
When the terrorists suddenly started to move the plane towards the control tower of the airport it gave the hostage release force no other option.