 French authorities enclosed them in some concentration-camps and then they were deported to Algeria, which at that time was part of France, at Gelpfa camp.Gomez escaped from camp tortures on May 1942 and managed to get a passage to Spain, where he again engaged in illegal activities in the fight against Franco.In 1946 he was arrested again and was thrown into Barcelona jail without a trial or conviction, where he remained for 8 years.