Josaia Raisuqe, who had received a red card for lifting a referee, received a five-week suspension Wednesday in the disciplinary committee, announced the National Rugby League.
On January 8, after the final whistle and the success of his team in Béziers (30-25), the Fijian winger of Nevers (Pro D2) had carried the central referee Laurent Milotte in triumph, probably overwhelmed by his joy. .
“At the time, I didn't calculate anything.
At the end of the match, the first person I saw was the referee and I lifted him up, that's all.
It was awkward but I didn't want to hurt him!
I was just happy! ”Explained the 26-year-old in an interview with the
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The extract of the match then flourished on social networks.
“My phone kept ringing.
It was unbearable, "said the former Stade Français player, who was" afraid of losing (his) job ".
The disciplinary commission recognized him responsible for "action against a match official" and for having "lacked respect for the authority of an official", according to the statement from the NRL.
The Fijian winger, author of three tries in six matches this season, had put his bags in Nevers in 2017 after his dismissal from the French Stadium for serious misconduct.
The Parisian club had parted ways with the Fijian international at VII following his involvement in a sexual assault case, one night he was celebrating his birthday.
Raisuqe was sentenced in 2020 by the Paris Criminal Court to six months suspended prison sentence.
During the trial, the victim had accused him of having notably "seized her breasts violently and strongly", in July 2017, at the exit of a nightclub in the 13th arrondissement of the capital.
One of his compatriots and teammate at the time, Waisea Nayacalevu - who is still playing at the Stade Français - was sentenced in January 2018 to 120 hours of community service (TIG) for drunken violence on two friends of the victim who had tried to intervene following the assault.
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