A lawyer for the Australian Government said this Friday that the Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic “He will not be detained tonight” nor deported pending his meeting with Immigration officials on Saturday morning.
Stephen Lloyd, the lawyer for the Ministry of Immigration, made this statement during a hearing in a Melbourne court, which is held after the Australian Government has revoked the tennis player’s visa for health and public order reasons.
The australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, justified this Friday the cancellation of Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic’s visa and recalled the “sacrifices” made by his compatriots during the pandemic.
“Australians have made many sacrifices during this pandemic, and they rightly expect the result of those sacrifices to be protected,” Morrison said in a statement, stressing that “strong border protection policies have kept Australians safe.” , before covid and currently during the pandemic “.
Morrison’s words come shortly after his Immigration Minister, Alex Hawke, used the special powers granted by the Australian Immigration Act to cancel the 34-year-old Serbian tennis player’s visa for health and order maintenance reasons. in order to defend public interests.
The Immigration Minister explained in his statement that he weighed errors and inconsistencies in the declaration that Djokovic made to enter Australia, as well as for contravening the isolation guidelines for covid-19 in Serbia, among other issues.
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Morrison said in the statement that he would make “no further comment” ahead of the “ongoing legal proceedings” in the case of Djokovic, who had hoped to win his 10th Australian Open title and become the most successful tennis player with 21 Grand Slams. , after entering the draw the day before.
Lawyers for “Nole” are expected to appeal this decision in court, which opens the possibility of being barred from entry for three years, except in certain circumstances such as those linked to the interests of Australia or humanitarian.
Part of the alleged errors and inconsistencies referred to the fact that the tennis player had declared that he had not traveled in the previous 14 days, but the truth is that he had moved from Serbia to Spain, while in his country of origin he granted an interview to a French medium knowing that he was positive for covid-19 and skipping the isolation to which he was obliged by the regulations in his country.
(Also read: The novel Novak Djokovic: check diplomacy and tennis)
Djokovic traveled to Melbourne on January 5 with a medical exemption that allowed him to play at the Australian Open without being vaccinated, although Customs authorities later canceled his visa until a court ruling on Monday gave him the tennis player’s reason.
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