Career
A French industrialist in Oran, he served as a second lieutenant with the 8th Regiment. Sent to Tunisia, at the time of the armistice he appeared in front of the military justice for having posted and distributed the texts of the call of June 18 from General Charles de Gaulle. But this was in vain, because the Vichy police and naval services guarded well and, the denouncement helping, more severe judgments rained down on those who were captured.
In March 1941, in Oran, Captain Jobelot introduced Henri d"Astier de la Vigerie to him, an officer at the Second Bureau of the Armistice Army, with whom he immediately sympathized.
After some interviews, the two men decided to create a movement, and intended to gather all those who wanted to take combat against the Germans. Roger and Pierre Carcassonne continued to develop the recruitment and the coordination of the forces and the intelligence agents.
The two men decided to keep up to date with their activities, however without federating their respective organizations. Carcassonne in Oran, under the pseudonym of Leduc, and Aboulker in Algiers, continued their activities which were centred on the construction of armed groups and military and civilian information centres.
But they excluded any activity from propaganda, little effect and likely to draw on them the attention of the services of repression.
In addition, it dealt with all the expenses of the group of Oran and also financed the organization for all North Africa, with the detriment of the interests of its company.