The family of Novak Djokovic He seems to live in his own bubble, where the tennis player is so important to be compared to God. Novak’s relatives held a press conference at the tennis player’s Belgrade restaurant to protest the Australian Border Force’s decision to deny entry to the defending Grand Slam champion.
Srdjan Djokovic, the tennis player’s father, called his son “a leader of the free world,” said Nole was “captive” and commented on Serbian history.
“Our Novak, our pride. Novak is Serbia and Serbia is Novak. They are trampling on Serbia and in doing so they are trampling on the Serbian people. The leader of that distant land, Scott Morrison dared to attack Novak and expel him before he reached his country. They wanted to bring him to his knees, and not just him, but our beautiful Serbia. We Serbs are a proud European people. Throughout history, we have never attacked anyone, we have only defended ourselves. That’s what Novak is doing now with his behavior towards hosts and organizers around the world, showing what kind of people he came from. That political oligarchy will not extinguish it. “
Novak’s brother, Djordje Djokovic, was the first to speak at the press conference and described his brother’s arrest as “the biggest sporting and diplomatic scandal. He said that Djokovic had been in contact with Tennis Australia and together they had reached a agreement on the exemption.
Novak and his team had no way of contacting federal authorities. The only way to make contact was through Tennis Australia, as they have a partner relationship with the authorities. Novak did not apply, Tennis Australia did, “said Djordje.
He said his brother had been taken to an isolation room at Melbourne airport and was only allowed to contact the family for the first 45 minutes.
“They took him to a hotel for migrants to a dirty room with no belongings, which they told him would be returned to him upon his return to Europe. He was treated as a criminal while he is a healthy and decent man and an athlete who has not endangered his life. nobody’s life and has not committed any federal or legal crime ”.
Djokovic’s father, Srdjan, addressed Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison directly, using the informal “you” in Serbian. Djokovic’s father ended the rally by inviting the crowd to return on Friday.
“You, famous prime minister of the distant, naturally beautiful country, are behaving according to your own principles, which have nothing to do with us and our principles. We are human, and you, sir, are not.”
The press conference was broadcast live by the Tanjug news agency on the state-affiliated B92 website.
Djokovic He is being held at a Melbourne hotel until at least Monday, when a Federal Circuit Court judge will decide whether to stop the federal government from deporting him.
The Serbian President, Aleksandar Vucic, told reporters in Belgrade that Djokovic needed to move into a rented house where he could train. Vucic described the Park Hotel as “infamous”, believed to be a reference to its history hosting asylum seekers and other immigration detainees. Vucic said a series of calls had been made between government officials, including Internal Affairs Minister Karen Andrews and Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic.
The Serbian Foreign Secretary called Australia’s ambassador to the Balkan country to demand that the tennis star be transferred to a better hotel while in detention.
In a statement posted on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia, Ambassador Daniel Emery was called in to attend the Ministry on January 6 to present a verbal protest against the treatment that Djokovic received in Australia.
“We hope that the ambassador will take measures personally so that (he) is transferred to adequate accommodation to the best athlete in the world, not to a criminal or an illegal immigrant,” he dictates.
The federal health authorities of Australia Tennis Australia boss Craig Tiley was told twice in writing that people who were not vaccinated and who had contracted Covid in the past six months would not receive free quarantine trips to Australia.
“In relation to your specific questions, I can confirm that people who contracted Covid-19 within six months and are seeking to enter Australia from abroad and have not received two doses of a Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) approved vaccine or recognized by TGA, they are not considered fully vaccinated, ”Health Minister Greg Hunt wrote to Mr. Tiley on November 29.
It has been more than 24 hours that a group of about 20 people remains in a park near the Park Hotel in Carlton, where Djokovic is detained, to show support for the tennis player, some wearing traditional Serbian costumes and waving flags.
Nadal disqualifies Djokovic medical exemption
The Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal, who has no special sympathy for his great rival Novak Djokovic, said that the Serbian tennis player must bear the consequences of not having been vaccinated against the coronavirus.
“What is happening is not positive for anyone. I lack all the details to comment, but all I can say is that many families have suffered and continue to do so, so we must trust the medicine and the people who really know about this. If they say we should get vaccinated, that’s what we have to do, that’s my point of view. I passed the Covid I have been vaccinated twice, and if you do that you have no problem competing here. The world has already suffered too much not to respect the rules, “he said.
Nadal 35 years old and Novak They have different positions regarding the policies of prevention and fight against the pandemic. The Spaniard who is pro vaccines declared in conference after his first game in the Melbourne Summer Set tournament.
“I feel that everyone can do what they consider good for themselves, but it is clear that there are rules and if they are not followed you can have problems. We have been two years in which many people are dying and the only way to stop it is with the vaccination. That is what the experts say and I am nobody to doubt it. Everyone is free to make their decisions, but there are consequences. “
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