 Following the discovery of the Special Organization, he was arrested and then released in 1951.He joined the Federation of the party in France in the company of M'hamed Yazid in 1952 and there, he took the leadership of the newspaper "Free Algeria", organ of the Federation.When the crisis broke MTLD, he opposed Messali el Hadj and, on charges of violating the external security of the French state, he was arrested in early 1954 and was released only August 1954.