A New Leader in the Gign: Colonel Benoît Villeminoz Takes the Lead in the Elite Gendarmerie Unit

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At the age of 48, he succeeded General Ghislain Rety in the head of this unit of elite of counter-terrorism and crisis management of the gendarmerie.

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Colonel Benoît Villeminoz was officially appointed head of the GIGN on Saturday, November 1, 2025, as revealed by the gendarmerie site (Colonel Yannick Vidal was acting since October 15, NDLR). After having been head of the intervention force section from 2004 to 2011, then head of the operational staff from 2014 to 2018, he returned to the sources after a journey combining GIGN, mobile gendarmerie, departmental and central administration. Enter…

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He is an elder of the house, who made several trips back and forth in the elite unit of the gendarmerie, who succeeds General Ghislain Réty Colonel Benoît Villeminoz was appointed commander Saturday

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Colonel Benoît Villeminoz has just been entrusted with the command of the Intervention Group of the Gendarmerie Nationale (GIGN). 48 years old, and native of Bourgoin-Jaileu (Isère), he takes on this Saturday, November 1, 2025, the head of the 1,000 soldiers of the elite unit of the Gendarmerie, distributed within the central GIGN, in Versailles-Satory, of the 14 antennae (AGIGN) – seven in metropolis and seven overseas – as well as of the three…