Nyorai kuenderera mberi kwechikamu chino - Muna 1954, Chentouf akabatana neNational Liberation Front (NLF), mushure mekuparadzana kwakaitika muhutungamiri hweMTDL. Gore rakatevera racho, akadzingwa uye akagara kunze kwenyika kwemwedzi inoverengeka mukati memamiriro ezvinhu ekukurumidzira akaparidzwa
. Paakadzoka, Chentouf akabatana naBaya Larab naHamoud, vachidzokorora kurudziro yavo, asi akasungwa. Pashure pokusunungurwa kwake, nemhaka yokuchengetedzwa kwakasimba, Chentouf akaenda kuTunisia, uko akabatanidzwa mwedzi inoverengeka gare gare nomurume wake. Akava chikamu cheboka raive nebasa rekugadzirwa kweAlgeria Red Crescent Society muna 1957. Nemhaka yokuti NLF yakanga isingavimbi neFrench Red Cross uye mitemo yeGeneva Conventions yakanga isingazivikanwi nemhaka yemamiriro emukati ekurwisana, varwi vaitarisira kuwana rubatsiro rwevanhu uye kugamuchirwa kwenyika dzose nokuva nhengo dzeInternational Red Cross neRed Crescent. Mahofisi okutanga esangano akavakwa muTangier, Morocco neTunis, uko Chentouf nemurume wake vakaramba varipo kusvikira muna 1962.