SA Sports season has been completed since Saturday, November 16, 2024, when the ligaments of its left knee yielded on the lawn of the Jean-Dauger stadium in Bayonne where the derby between US Dax and the Stade Montois was played. This Monday, May 5, 2025, it was on a completely different field that Jope Naseara found himself, quoted to appear before the Dax court.
Assisted by an interpreter, the Fijian winger of the 22-year-old USD had to answer for the violence of which he was guilty in the night of November 2 to 3, in an epilogue of hours spent alcoholic beyond reason with partners. The same drift had earned his compatriot Ratu Nacika to be sentenced to a suspended prison year, following his judgment of Thursday, November 22, past, for sexual assault, violence and degradations committed in several bars in the Place de la Fontaine-Chaude.
A client of the atmosphere and the manager of this trade had thus been among the first to suffer the access to violence of the two Fijians, with a slap and at least a blow carried by Jope Naseara on his two victims, constituted civil parties. “I want to apologize. But I don’t remember anything anymore, ”said rugby player, head down.
“The moral plan and the image”
“As soon as you choose to raise your hands on someone, you take a risk and we have to assume the consequences,” noted Benoît Fontaine. In his requisitions, the Prosecutor of the Republic of Dax took care to note that the notoriety of the USD player, with repercussions on “the moral plan and the image” of the club which employs it, should have “no impact” on the judgment of Laure Vuitton. To get her advice and take her investigation, the president of the court, however, struck the absence of memory of the respondent.
“Serving 20 shooters for people who are already drunk, I remind you that it can be liable to a ticket. »»
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After making him admit that he had not completely stopped alcohol since this evening, the judge noted “the difficulty of asking more questions from the moment you no longer remember anything”. Present at the hearing, his two victims did not wish to provide details on this altercation. Their lawyer, Marc-Olivier Chort, obtained that the amount of their compensation was established during a second hearing, scheduled for Tuesday, June 24.
“People’s Tribunal”
Jope Naseara’s lawyer, Me Nathalie Brethoux, wanted to enter the fray of a “boiling and heavy file”. Time has spent this dark evening since this dark evening and the trial of Ratu Nacika. It allowed him to identify some shortcuts from the file and undermine “guilt denounced by the People’s Tribunal” as soon as the facts are revealed.
“Serving 20 shooters for people who are already drunk, I remind you that it can be liable to a ticket. Without pleading the release of the young winger, who arrived in Dax in 2023, his council notably focused on his manifest blood alcohol level and his loss of consciousness having followed the altercation. The absence of consolidated medical certificates attesting to injuries from the civil parties also contributed to the sanction is more lenient than the sentence requested by the prosecutor.
Available of these drunken violence, Jope Naseara was sentenced to four months suspended prison sentence. Supported by his coach, Jeff Dubois, some partners and leaders of the US Dax at the time of rendering the deliberation, he must also pay a fine of 500 euros and no longer appear in the atmosphere during the next three years.
