Rugby, tragedy: Raisuqe dies overwhelmed by a train

Following an absurd clash between his car and a train the 30 -year -old rugby player Josaia Raisuqe, Figiana del Castres wing, silver medal in Rugby Seven at the Paris 2024 Rugby Games, died following. The accident took place in Saix, on the route between the player’s house and the training camp: his car was at the height of the level of level when he was outstretched by the train. The firefighters who rushed after the accident evacuated the driver and a controller, in a state of shock, but unharmed from the train guiding cabin. No passenger suffered injuries.

career

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Raisuqe had been at Castres since 2021, after the experiences at Stade Francais (2015-2017) and Nera (2017-2021). With the Stade Champion of France in charge in 2015 he was Sergio Parisse’s Blue Comrade and trained by the current Azzurro Gonzalo CT CHEADA: both of them remembering him on social media by posting a poignant photos of Raisuqe with the Parisian club shirt. In March he had signed a contract to play the next two seasons. This year he had put together 7 appearances, the last against Tolosa a few weeks ago. At the Paris Games he had played with the Figi the final for the gold medal, losing against the hostess France. Antoine Dupont himself, on the field in that game and captain of the French national team in XV, recalled the opponent by posting a photo of Raisuqe in black and white on his social networks. “A boy, radiant inside and off the pitch, a pillar of the Figi community we have in the club and to which we are very tied,” said Pierre-Yves Revol, Castres coach. In fact, there are two other cool ones in the team, the second Leone Nakarawa line and the Centro Vilimoni Boimento. Obviously in shock the whole community of French rugby. His club, Castres Olympique, is obviously “upset by pain” for the loss of “a wonderful teammate, appreciated by everyone and adopted with love by the fans”. The Rugby League, in expressing “the immense sadness” for the tragedy, immediately ordered the postponement of the match with the Clermont scheduled for Saturday at 2.30 pm, while on all the other fields of Top14 and Prod2 will be paid tribute to the Player Figiano.

the investigations

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The local gendarmerie, on the initiative of the Procurator of the Republic Elodie Buguel, immediately opened an investigation to ascertain the causes of the accident. The collision took place around 8 am between the car and a ter, a regional express train directed towards Tolosa with 21 passengers on board. According to the prosecutor, Raisuqe had just left the sports center to return home where he had forgotten things. According to the first testimonies, the car would have passed the safety barriers and therefore would have been centered by the locomotive. The investigators then seized the black train box and collected data to investigate the correct functioning of the level crossing, while the tests on alcohol and drugs carried out on the body of Raisuqe immediately were negative.