I’m running from the French police and living out of my backpack

Rocky Elsom has revealed he was living out of a backpack after going into hiding. international arrest warrant A document was published by the French police last month for the former Australia captain.

Elsom was sentenced to five years in prison by a French court for forgery and embezzlement relating to his time as Narbonne’s club president, and Elsom was ordered to pay €700,000 (£583,000). He played 75 times for Australia and was a key figure in Leinster’s 2009 Heineken Cup win.

Elsom was in Dublin when the arrest warrant was issued and in an interview with The Sunday Times he revealed that he was coaching rugby at a local school. Speaking from an unknown location, Elsom added that his friends now help him while he was living out of a backpack.

“As soon as I saw the news, I immediately recovered. I was packing my stuff when people called me to tell me what they were reading,” Elsom said. Daily Mail. “I was only in Dublin for six weeks. I was there on a holiday visa. I left all my belongings behind. When I left I had a backpack consisting of two shirts and a laundry bag. It is unusual to wake up one day and find that you have been convicted of something and sentenced to prison, having no idea you were on trial. “There doesn’t appear to have been any real attempt to contact me prior to this.”

Following the newspaper interview, Gardai in Ireland contacted Elsom and said they would bring him in.

“They came to the Catholic University School, they came to my house and when they couldn’t find me they called and said, ‘If you’re in Ireland we’ll bring you.’ “I said, ‘That’s good, I’m not in Ireland’.”

Elsom added that he was struggling to make money, relying on friends and savings who had previously worked as builders, and that he was trying to contact people in Narbonne who managed the club’s accounts while he was president. Some information that might exonerate me.”

Elsom insists ‘there was no mismanagement’He said “there are a lot of things that are not smart”, claiming Narbonne was trying to “rewrite the story of 2018” when the club changed managers and ended the season in administration.

“I think the biggest thing is I don’t think the allegations can show any harm has been done to the club,” Elsom concluded.