If you seriously perturb the French, these are the type of cheese eating surrender monkeys that they send to get you.

The Group D'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale is one of the world's oldest and most combat-experienced counter-terrorist organizations on earth.  Trained with some of the most intense firearms qualifications this side of a Call of Duty weapon select screen, these ski-mask-wearing terrorist-annihilating police commandos are also the only CT force to carry motherfucking revolvers as their official sidearm, parachuting into combat situations or raiding terrorist-held container ships while packing a respectable-ass .357 magnum revolver that can rip off something like 200,000 rounds before needing to have its barrel switched out for a new one.  Founded after the Munich Olympics massacre in 1972, GIGN operators have performed over a thousand operations in the last 43 years, have rescued over five hundred hostages, arrested a thousand suspects, and wiped the floor with more tangos than a dance instructor.

If you displease the people of France, these guys are going to find you.  They'll hunt you down Wild West cowboy style, attack you from land, air, and sea, and they won't reset until they've Clint Eastwooded a magnum round into you and every person you've ever cared about.

Training for GIGN is some of the most intense in the world, rocking a washout rate of nearly 95%.  Designed primarily to weed out non-insane people who don't have a death wish and an intense urge to put their life on the line for France, on like the first day of training they make you bungee jump off a bridge and then swim through a tunnel with your hands and feet bound.  Later on you get to lay at the bottom of the Seine River in downtown Paris while barges pass just feet above your head, go one ten-mile runs in full kit, and spend a decent chunk of your afternoon undergoing grueling memorization and reasoning tests to gauge your intellectual badassitude.  Then they take the guys who are left over and literally have them fight each other hand-to-hand to see who's the toughest and wash out the guys who can't hack it.  If you pass all that and manage to make it through, GIGN training takes ten months and covers hostage negotiation, ship assault, high-altitude low-opening parachute drops, sniper marksmanship, desert ops, Krav Maga, combat skiing (yes, combat skiing), desert operations, rappelling, and how to disarm a shotgun-wielding terrorist with their bare hands.  They also get more gun training than any other CT group in the world, since their organizational doctrine says that every guy in the unit should be able to not only use his own shit, but also how to disarm a moslem and kill him with his own gun.

Nice to know these guys are on our side, and it explains why the bloodthirsty muslims that killed the French journalists recently are now six feet under, feeding the worms, where they belong.

Even more good scoop on these guys here.