Your president's bodyguards

[Boomstick]

This is what my president deserves as bodyguards;

That is too good.

[He219]

1er RPIMA GDC (bodyguard group, french generals close protection), in Liban, last summer

Negative.
Neither a French General, Lebanon or last year.

I posted this pic a long time ago - single source (me), same resolution.
Here is the actual caption:

United States ambassador to the United Nations, John Negroponte, wearing a bulletproof vest is guarded by a French soldier, Thursday, June 12, 2003, during a meeting of UN security council diplomats at the UN compound in Bunia, Congo. U.N. Security Council diplomats arrived in this northeastern Congolese town Thursday on a mission meant to relaunch a political process to end violence in the region

EPIGN:
French Embassy, Abidjan, Ivory Coast



You can also see the GIPN ("Police Nationale" Intervention Group) in close-protec missions
Other pics (GIPN and EPIGN mixed) in Haiti, Beyrut, Ivory coast...


Michelle Alliot-Marie

Again, sequence from French security operators

This kind of pilfering and shoving it back to the source here without reference is just insulting.
As if it's something new. It's not even on topic.

[He219]

Couple from Today:

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper (in blue) is surrounded by his JTF-2 security detail as he climbs up an observation post at a Canadian forward operation base in Ma'Sum Ghar, Kandahar province Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Austrian special police exercise at their training ground in Wiener Neustadt, south of Vienna, on Tuesday, May 22, 2007, ahead of the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin arrives in Vienna for a brief state visit Wednesday amid tight security and expectations that Austrian leaders will address human rights issues with their high-profile guest

[Chulo]

i dont know if im just lookin for it more often, or they are starting to use it a lot more.. but thats a deployed ballistic shield

[bats]

Negative.
Neither a French General, Lebanon or last year.

I posted this pic a long time ago - single source (me), same resolution.
Here is the actual caption:




Again, sequence from French security operators

This kind of pilfering and shoving it back to the source here without reference is just insulting.
As if it's something new. It's not even on topic.

Sorry about that

But I didn't take the pics from there. As you can see I am new here...

Some pics (EPIGN - Ivory coast) are from a french photographer Christophe Dubois, most of them are in his book "Gendarmes" and I find the others on another forum. Moreover AFP (Agence France Presse) pictures are easy to find on the net...

By the way, in your topic "French Security Operators" you make many mistakes.

For example operators on boats (G8) or watching the see from a roof (Cannes) are not from GIGN

http://pro.corbis.com/images/DWF15-7...2-744044152546}

GIGN is NOT a Police unit (you can see a POLICE patch on the back of one guy on the roof)

The guys on the boats are from EPIGN naval detachment

If I post these pics is because EPIGN is security unit, back-up of GSPR (president security) so they sometines protect him, and they belongs to the same command: GSIGN.

And here, many people have posted not only president bodyguards pics but also from other units, or protecting other VIPs.......


For the first pic you quote, you are true, a made a mistake, it was in Bunia, not in lebanon.

But I assume he is a GDC (due to his P90). I never said he was actually protecting a FRENCH general, but that is his usual job.....

[tango44]

That´s what my president should have as scort;

Man that helmet looks like tight!

[Generation Kill]

Putin is a ****ing gangster.

[Xlimit]

Didn't know JTF-2 had M14's in it's inventory... nice pics all!!!

[Pete031]

Didn't know JTF-2 had M14's in it's inventory... nice pics all!!!

I don't see an M14.... I see a heavy barrelled C8 in the back round.

[SamHamam]

Some GSPR pics:

Interesting choice of jacket for a Frenchman. I've seen them wearing UK Windproof Smocks in the RIPMa but that looks like a Smock, Parachitist.

[Bullet28]

Interesting choice of jacket for a Frenchman. I've seen them wearing UK Windproof Smocks in the RIPMa but that looks like a Smock, Parachitist.

And he uses a Zastava m-79 sniper rifle interesting choice

[CreepingDeath]

Are those Dockers you're wearing?

yep. those are dockers, its quite obvious.

[STEPAN1983]

Putin is a ****ing gangster.

And you are ignorant man.
This photo was taken in the Caucasus - a total warzone. Do you expect president's Bush bodyguards to use a simple 9mm pistols during the visit to Iraq? I think in such **** places there is no need to look non-aggressive - life of Boss is a priority.

[rhino]

And you are ignorant man.
This photo was taken in the Caucasus - a total warzone. Do you expect president's Bush bodyguards to use a simple 9mm pistols during the visit to Iraq? I think in such **** places there is no need to look non-aggressive - life of Boss is a priority.

you are quite ignorant yourself, noone is pointing at his body guards, Putin's dressed like a gangster, and you have a funny definition of "total war zone", what year is this pic from??

[STEPAN1983]

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper (in blue) is surrounded by his JTF-2 security detail as he climbs up an observation post at a Canadian forward operation base in Ma'Sum Ghar, Kandahar province Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 23, 2007

He is not wearing a black suit, is he a gangster?