Biarritz hooker Heguy suspended for 20 games
Paris (AFP) - Biarritz hooker Arnaud Heguy has been suspended for 20 weeks for threatening a referee after a match, the French National Rugby League announced on Thursday.
The Top 14 club's forwards coach Laurent Rodriguez was banned for 12 weeks and president Serge Blanco was also suspended from all rugby activity for four weeks following the acrimonious end to the club's 24-13 defeat by Toulon last month.
Heguy was accused of "menacing behaviour towards an official" and will be sidelined until February.
Rodriguez was banned for "threatening language" and Blanco, who was the League's first president from 1998 to 2008 and is still a vice-president of the French Rugby Federation, for "indiscipline" for confronting officials.
But scrum-half Dimitri Yachvili, who appeared before the disciplinary committee for a high tackle on Toulon's Delon Armitage, was cleared.
The club will also have to pay a 3,000 euro (£2,520, $4,000) fine.
On their website, Biarritz said: "The club will not be commenting but reserves the right to appeal against these sanctions, particularly those handed out to Arnaud Heguy."
