Novak Djokovic did not want to go into more detail about the alleged poisoning he suffered in the Melbourne hotel where he was detained before his deportation in January 2022, when he entered Australia without being vaccinated against COVID
In an interview with GQ, he said he started to feel unwell once he arrived in Serbia. “I had some health problems. And I realized that in that hotel in Melbourne they gave me food that had poisoned me. I never told anyone publicly, but I had a very high level of heavy metals like lead and mercury. And it could only come from the food.”
Asked about these statements at the press conference before the Australian Open, the Serbian tennis player commented that he wants to focus on tennis. “I don’t want to go into details, anyone who wants more information should read that interview,” he said.
In the interview for this magazine, he points out the symptoms he suffered during those days: “It was like a flu, a simple flu. But the days went by and that simple flu made me feel very down. The same thing happened to me several times and then I had to have [toxicology] tests,” he says.
A spokesperson for Australia’s Home Office, when asked about the matter, told GQ magazine that “for privacy reasons, the department cannot comment on individual cases”.
This was the “infamous hotel” where Djokovic was isolated and where he claimed he could have been poisoned
That January in 2022, Djokovic was staying at The Park Hotel Melbourne, where many of the people doing the mandatory 14-day quarantine in Melbourne were staying when they arrived from abroad, as well as a large group of refugees. The facility was described at the time by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic as “infamous”.
Nole’s mother, Dijana Djokovic, also hit out at the hotel: “The accommodation is horrible. It is a small hotel for refugees, with bugs, it is dirty, the food is terrible and they do not give him the opportunity to move to a house that is already rented.”
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