 On July 4, 1936, he addressed a right-wing faction during a demonstration in Aix-en-Provence which turned violent.During World War II, he was the general secretary of the Marseille Bureau of the Légion des Volontaires Français, a collaborator of the Vichy regime.On August 5, 1942 he was arrested alongside Paul Carbone in Marseille over the possible murder of two women and the shooting of five more people during the Bastille Day march a month earlier.