Not surprisingly Emile Bories was elected Lord Mayor of Aïn-Tellout: small village between Tlemcen and Sidi-Bel-Abbès, Emile brings to the army his help and his knowledge of the Arabic language and of the Algerians. The permanent presence on the domain discourages the conflicts in its district where he enjoys besides an incomparable respect, as with his workers as with the population. Then in 1959, the situation deteriorating in Algeria, it is of Aïn-Tellout that Emile leaves in campaign appointed by his father and his cousins Margnat.

Emile sells the property of Sainte Marie (in Algeria) to try to reinvest them in Corsica. After nine months of studies and too numerous disappointments, Emile knows Corsica better than one Corsica will ever know it ... . But it is forced to abandon this project and returns then to Mostaganem. Then Emile makes the only professional error of his life he acquires with the money of Sainte Marie an estate in Tassin (at 6 km of Aïn-Tellout!!!) The terrible events follow and the reason Emile survives is because he always liked this country and his inhabitants, and that he always did the 'good', not the charity even if he was generous, no, the 'good', what was just and useful, and in the best way that it could be, sort of beautiful work! And he was respected for that.

On 1962, the Algerian obtained their independence and look for weapons still in ownership of the European. Emile receives the order to hand back his weapons to the authorities. Gérard and Michel Medina on the spot, worry a lot, because the idea roams that the owners latecomers will be killed with their own weapons. Emile obtains, finally a licence to circulate and starts for Aïn-Tellout. A roadblock to Sidi-Bel-Abbès seemed to him a little bit suspicious. Someone obliges him to leave the main road and to borrow a small road which takes away from the city. Farther, a man forces him to stop, to sign a bill of sale of its car; at that time Emile is sure to have been kidnapped by illegal forces and he remembers himself that last week, a colonist was knifed on this same road. He signs without hesitating the  surrendering of his car hoping so would save his life.... But in the rear-view mirror he perceives the man who is behind him and who takes out of its djellaba a revolver with the very likely intention to kill him. Then he plays the whole for the whole, and with his imperfect but local colored knowledge of the arabic language, he explains to this man " that he is going to kill a just man who, all his life was a good boss " his interlocutor answers him that his mother was too a just woman and that the Frenchmen killed her … Then Emile said to him " if you are sure that your mother is going to return to approve you... you can kill me also " and the man to answer him " You are a brave man! We are going to take back you at home, but we keep your car because we have a French guy to be fetched to Bou Anifia, we shall be looking for you tomorrow! "... And, the next day, in spite of the fears of his workers and having returned weapons Emile took Mostaganem.'s road with his kidnappers of the day before... Without more fear. Some days after Emile thinks of organizing the repatriation of all his family. He will do numerous movements to France.