Treviso prop Ivan Nemer was suspended till the tip of the season by the Italian Rugby Federation (FIR) on Friday after an investigation discovered he was the supply of the rotten banana given as a Christmas current to a black teammate.
Following a federal-court determination, the 24-year-old Nemer, who has gained 11 caps, is suspended till June 30 and has given up his enchantment, the FIR stated in an announcement on Friday.
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Argentina-born Nemer was initially suspended, however not named, on December 22, a day after his teammate Cherif Traore, additionally an Italy prop, had taken to Instagram concerning the banana incident.
The 28-year-old, who was born in Guinea, had been given the ‘gift’ of a rotten banana throughout a Secret Santa trade, a sport the place people purchase presents which are then distributed anonymously.
Traore spoke out on Instagram after the incident saying “what hurt me the most was seeing most of my teammates present laughing”, including that he needed to placed on “a brave face every time I hear racist jokes … but yesterday was different”.
Treviso pressured its “firm condemnation of any expression of racism” in a press launch with the gamers apologising to Traore.
In its press launch on Friday, the FIR stated it had considered Nemer’s need “to shed full light on what had happened” in addition to his apology and the injury he had performed to the picture of Italian rugby.
“Racism has never played and never will play any role in my life, just as it should play no role in the life of any of us,” Nemer stated within the assertion.
“I come from a multicultural country like Argentina, where cultures have intermingled for more than a century.” Neither Nemer nor Traori featured in Italy coach Kieran Crowley’s squad for the Six Nations which they start towards France in Rome on February 5.
Source: www.news.com.au
