Argoud was twice tried and convicted (the first in absentia) for his role in the attempted assassination of French President Charles de Gaulle on 22 August 1962.

On 25 February 1963, while he was hiding in Munich, he was kidnapped by French secret police CRS agents at the Eden-Wolff hotel.

During his interrogation, Argoud's revelations allowed the secret service to arrest Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry and other conspirators.

I made them public, precisely to obtain maximum profitability from the death of a man, unlike many of my comrades.

"[3] The racist mindset which Argoud used to justify his crimes was later mentioned by French historian Marnia Lazreg in her book about the French colonial empire's use of torture:Quoting Colonel Antoine Argoud, a French officer who played an active role in the campaign of torture, she portrays how, in the eyes of their torturers, Algerians were not only "eminently suited for terror tactics," but "called for them; their nature needed them" by virtue of their being "primitives with savage impulses.