Rocky Elsom: I am on the run from French police living out of a rucksack
Briefly

"As soon as I saw the news reports, I just packed straight away. I was packing when people were calling me to tell me what they'd read.... It’s unusual to think that you wake up one day and you're convicted of something and sentenced to prison when you had no idea you were on trial."
"They came to Catholic University School, they came to my home and, when they couldn't find me, they called me and said, 'If you're in Ireland, we're going to bring you in'. I said, 'That's good, I'm not in Ireland'."
"I’m struggling to make money, relying on friends and savings having previously worked as a builder, and that I was trying to make contact with the people at Narbonne who handled the club's accounts when I was president who 'are in possession of some of the information that could exonerate me'"
"I insist that there was 'no mismanagement', that 'there are quite a few things that don't add up', claiming that Narbonne were attempting to 'rewrite the story of 201'..."
Read at Irish Independent
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