the GIGN incognito on trains this summer

Your train neighbor may have been a member of the GIGN: Since yesterday, soldiers have been patrolling the oars incognito, as have members of the National Police Intervention Force. They travel throughout the territory, in selected trains "randomly or in a more targeted manner depending on the threat" the gendarmerie.

The operation is called "Marshall Train". It is inspired by the "air marshalls", these members of the police who circulate incognito in planes in the United States and France, with a objective: to be effective in the face of the terrorist threat, but also to rebadure

Soldiers specially trained for this mission

These men and women of the GIGN are at least two by train and mix with other travelers, incognito. Coming from the elite unit of the gendarmerie, they are armed, equipped with radios, discreet bullet-proof vests. No question for them to intervene on facts of small or average delinquency: they must preserve their coverage . These soldiers trained specifically for this mission, they studied the configuration of trains, and followed courses of behavior badysis, to detect any suspicious attitude. The trigger for this operation is the failed attack by Thalys on August 21, 2015: that day, the intervention of travelers prevented carnage.

According to the Ministry of the Interior Every day in the summer, more than 2,000 police and gendarmes will be mobilized on the trains serving the busiest areas and in the train stations.