"The smells surrounded us from the dead or the injuries that had rotted," an anonymous trapped witness told the BBC. The siege would continue for 14 days, and would only end with the French elite GIGN ...

The Manurhin MR73 revolver has developed a legendary reputation as the sidearm of the French Groupe d'Intervention Gendarmerie Nationale (GIGN). Photo credit: Groupe d’Intervention Gendarmerie ...