Stephen Roche on spending night in police cell after French arrest

https://www.stickybottle.com/latest-news/stephen-roche-on-spending-night-in-police-cell-after-french-arrest/ Posted on: December 16th, 2016 Just when you thought you knew everything there was to know about Irish great Stephen Roche… One of the most talked about athletes in the history of Irish sport, there is little that has not been written about Stephen Roche. But in a revealing new interview; the Tour, Giro and Worlds winner reveals he was arrested by French police five years ago as part of an investigation into a major fraud gang working in Nice. And while the Dubliner was led away by a group of officers from outside a bank and placed in the cells in a local police station for the night, the investigators soon realised he was completely innocent. Instead, he was about to become the fraudsters’ latest victim. The unpleasant episode is revealed in the just-published December edition of Rouleur magazine . Roche is interviewed at length by Andy McGrath under the headline ‘Stephen Roche...