France hooker Peato Mauvaka has been suspended for three games following an incident involving Scotland's Ben White.
Mauvaka received a yellow card for throwing himself head first into the grounded scrum-half during France’s Guinness Six Nations title-clinching win in Paris on Saturday.
He was subsequently cited for foul play after being accused for striking an opponent with "any part of the arm, shoulder, head or knee" and an independent disciplinary committee ruled he should face a six-game ban.
The punishment was halved after the forward admitted foul play, showed remorse and in account of his previous clean record.
He will miss three games for Toulouse, including an Investec Champions Cup encounter against Sale.
Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend was baffled by the match officials’ failure to send off Mauvaka midway through the first half of his side's 35-16 defeat. France led 10-0 at the time but Scotland cut the deficit to 16-13 before half-time.
Townsend said after the game: "It clearly was a non-tackle incident, it was after the whistle. So, if there was head contact and that was intentional, it shouldn’t be anything to do with the force that was involved.
"I feel sorry for Ben White here, because he did nothing. He was first of all pushed to the ground, and a push is nothing in rugby, and then he got collided in the head, so I don’t know how it wasn’t raised to a red card."
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