 With the complicity of Admiral Jean-Marie Charles Abrial, he deported opponents of Vichy to concentration camps in Southern Algeria and Morocco.Those imprisoned included Gaullists, Freemasons, and Jews, and also Communists, despite their obedience at the time to Moscow's orders not to support the resistance.He also arrested the foreign volunteers of the "Légion Etrangère", foreign refugees who were in France legally but were without employment, and others.