Real GIGN theme bonus (L’Assaut, Air France Flight 8969)

From the French movie “L’Assaut“ Air France Flight 8969 was an Air France flight that was hijacked on 24 December 1994 by the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) at Algiers, where they killed three passengers, with the intention to blow up the plane over the Eiffel Tower in Paris. When the aircraft reached Marseille, the GIGN, an intervention group of the French Gendarmerie, stormed the plane and killed all four hijackers. The GIA’s plan appeared to foreshadow the 11 September attacks. Thomas Sancton of TIME magazin
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