Serbia demands Australia move Novak Djokovic to a nicer hotel

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It does look like a crumby hotel not befitting a sports star.. :oops:

Serbia demands Australia move Novak Djokovic to a nicer hotel

Serbia’s foreign secretary has hauled in Australia’s ambassador to the Balkan country to demand tennis star Novak Djokovic be moved to a nicer hotel while he is in immigration detention after his visa was cancelled.

The intervention comes as Acting Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan revealed Tennis Australia did not inform her government about Morrison government letters stating a prior COVID infection – the basis for Djokovic’s exemption – would not be accepted as a genuine exemption.

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The world no.1 tennis star is detained in the Park Hotel in Carlton, alongside a number of asylum seekers who have been detained there for years. He is awaiting a court hearing on Monday that will determine whether he will be able to stay in the country to defend his Australian Open title.

In a statement posted on the Serbian Foreign Affairs Ministry website, secretary Nemanja Starovic says he called the Australian Ambassador to Serbia Daniel Emery to attend the foreign office on January 6 to lodge a verbal protest due to the treatment of Djokovic in Australia.

“We expect that the ambassador personally takes action for [him] to be moved to accommodation befitting the best sportsman in the world, not a criminal or an illegal immigrant,” Mr Starovic said in the statement.

He said Serbia did not wish to influence Australian court decisions, but expected that the Australian government, in the spirit of good diplomatic relations between the two countries, to allow Djokovic to spend Orthodox Christmas in better accommodation.

Mr Starovic said there was a “strong sense in the Serbian public” that Djokovic had unwillingly become the victim of political games and that he had been baited to travel to Australia where he was later humiliated.

He said Djokovic was not a criminal, terrorist or illegal immigrant, but had been treated as such by Australian authorities, upsetting and angering his fans and the citizens of Serbia.

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ahahahaha

sorry.

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I'm amazed he got this far. No Vax, No Visa. Come on Australia, stop faffing around with these prima donnas.

The fact he is now in an 'ordinary' hotel full of "asylum seekers" is funny as there were plenty of Serbian ones in Europe 20 years ago.

Here are some of the latest reviews of the Park Hotel, Melbourne on TripAdvisor. :D

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I'm surprised nobody has created a fake Novak Djokovic account and done some posting on his behalf...
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Oz has more cases now than ever, by a long way, apart from WA who had locked down their borders from the start.

Once they open up it’ll be a shit storm.
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Come on Australia, stop faffing around with these prima donnas.
Djokovic had unwillingly become the victim of political games and that he had been baited to travel to Australia where he was later humiliated.
It's obvious that Tennis Australia and the Victorian government were pandering for him to come. After all, what's an Australian Open without the world's current No 1?

Having said that he was supposedly granted a non vax exemption on the basis that he said he contracted covid 6 months earlier. But the federal government said no (unvaccinated with prior covid infection is not accepted for entry) and apparently they sent letters advising Tennis Australia of same and the Vic state government are saying they were not advised of such.

I think it shows 2 things: 1. self interest in promoting sport to the state and 2. I dunno about politicking but problematic bureaucracy between the feds and the states
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Clutch Cargo wrote: Fri Jan 07, 2022 11:26 am
Come on Australia, stop faffing around with these prima donnas.
Djokovic had unwillingly become the victim of political games and that he had been baited to travel to Australia where he was later humiliated.
It's obvious that Tennis Australia and the Victorian government were pandering for him to come. After all, what's an Australian Open without the world's current No 1?

Having said that he was supposedly granted a non vax exemption on the basis that he said he contracted covid 6 months earlier. But the federal government said no (unvaccinated with prior covid infection is not accepted for entry) and apparently they sent letters advising Tennis Australia of same and the Vic state government are saying they were not advised of such.

I think it shows 2 things: 1. self interest in promoting sport to the state and 2. I dunno about politicking but problematic bureaucracy between the feds and the states
The entire covid situation these past two years has highlighted the problematic bureaucracy between the federal and states. I’m very much wondering what the PM even contributes other than Chairing meetings of Feds where decisions then get managed at State level. Australia really needs to take a long hard look at itself
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If he wouldn't have posted about his vax exemption before arrival then probably these events wouldn't have come about but the media got a hold of it & the Aussies began screeching

Now I see that they are investigating today the validity of exemptions issued to other tennis players in the tournament

Very poorly handled by Australia & by Djokovic (who despite being a great tennis player seems to be a bit of a retard)
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It’s no Djoke: The chequered history of the hotel holding the world’s best tennis player

When refugee advocate Jane Salmon was first asked about the world’s top tennis player, 20-time grand slam winner Novak Djokovic, being taken to the Park Hotel, she thought The Age was joking. “Thanks for the laugh,” she said.

Nestled at the edge of Melbourne’s CBD, on Swanston Street in Carlton, the hotel has, for more than a year, been used by Australian Border Force as a makeshift immigration detention centre, mainly for asylum seekers transferred to Australia from Papua New Guinea and Nauru.

The building has been the site of COVID-19 outbreaks and fires broke out there in the last week of 2021, with detainees alleging they were evacuated while handcuffed.

Days later, detainees said they were given maggot-infested food.
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Detainees said there were maggots in their meal of chicken and broccoli in December.

“The food is bullshit,” Bengali refugee Mohammad Joy Miah told The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.

Djokovic is notoriously strict about his diet, which is outlined in the book Serve To Win, the 14-day Gluten-Free Plan for Physical and Mental Excellence.

Before reopening as the Park Hotel at the end of 2020, the hotel was known as the Rydges on Swanston. It was the source of a COVID-19 outbreak that triggered the devastating second wave of coronavirus in Victoria that led to hundreds of deaths. More than 90 per cent of infections during that wave were traced back to international arrivals at the hotel.

Djokovic’s brother Djordje said he was taken to a “dirty room without any belongings” while Serbian tennis reporter Sasa Ozmo, who has a close working relationship with the superstar, said there were “bugs” in his room.

Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews on Friday rejected Djokovic was “being held captive” at the hotel, saying he could leave the country at any time.

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