Laurent Preziosi

At the university of law and letters in Algiers his circle of friends included Yves Dechezelles and Albert Camus[2] who he had already got to know through football matches (RCMC/RUA).

[5] The police kept an eye on his activities and commissioner Préa gave him advancecd warning of his imminent arrest and internment in the Djeniene Bourezg camp, where many died of scurvy.

From there he left for Corscia via Marseille where his friend François Tomasino, previously responsible for the "Jeunesses socialistes" in Bouches-du-Rhône, proposed that Preziosi set up a fruit and vegetable export subsidiary for his society at 63 Boulevard Graziani in Bastia.

On this journey Preziosi met many others keen to set up resistance networks, notably the mayor of Bastia, Hyacinthe de Montera, who had been sacked by the Vichy regime.

[6] Warned of a probable large-scale Allied invasion of North Africa, he returned there secretly and based himself in Oran, where he was unknown but could also meet Albert Camus on a daily basis.