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Tennis star Novak Djokovic has made the sensational claim that he was “poisoned” with lead and mercury while held in Australia in January 2022. The incident is alleged to have occurred when the country’s then-Immigration Minister Alex Hawke revoked the player’s visa because he was not vaccinated against COVID-19. Djokovic spent five days detained at Melbourne’s Park Hotel while his lawyers challenged the decision but was eventually deported and prevented from competing at the 2022 Australian Open tournament.
Speaking in a recent interview with GQ ahead of this year’s Australian Open, the record-breaking 24-time Grand Slam winner asserted that his health was compromised during his stay at the detention hotel. “I had some health issues. And I realized that in that hotel in Melbourne, I was fed with some food that poisoned me,” said Djokovic. After returning home to Serbia, the player had fallen sick and learned that he had “very high” levels of the toxic heavy metals lead and mercury. He subsequently received treatment from an emergency medical team.
Asked if he was sure the poisoning came from the food he was given, Djokovic stressed that this was the only way it could have happened as all his meals were provided by the hotel. When invited to respond to the allegation, a spokesperson for Australia’s Department of Home Affairs reportedly declined to comment.
Djokovic also expressed frustration with the overall treatment he received in Australia while detained, saying he was placed in a “kind of a jail room” which was different from the arrangements made for other quarantining athletes.
His visa was ultimately revoked, Djokovic believes, due to him being perceived as a “public threat.” Seemingly, the Australian authorities were concerned that the player was becoming a hero to the growing anti-vax movement at that time. As such, Djokovic suspects his deportation was politically motivated, rather than being strictly related to his vaccination status. “The politicians could not stand me being there,” he says.
Djokovic stresses that his position today remains the same and that he is neither pro-vaccine nor anti-vax. “I am pro-freedom to choose what is right for you and your body,” he says. “So, when somebody takes away my right to choose what I should be taking for my body, I don’t think that’s correct.”
Since being deported from Australia, Djokovic has continued to refuse the COVID-19 vaccine. “I’m a healthy individual,” he explains. “I take care of my body, take care of my health needs, and I’m a professional athlete. And because I’m a professional athlete, I’m extremely mindful of what I consume.”
As a result of his experiences, Djokovic admits that three years on he still feels “trauma” when visiting Australia to play tennis. Notably, therefore, Anthony Albanese, who became the country’s prime minister in May 2022, recently criticized the previous government’s handling of the affair, admitting that it is “hard to justify.”
With the most extensive study yet carried out on COVID-19 vaccines having confirmed their links to serious health problems, there can be little doubt that Djokovic made the right decision. Future historians are unlikely to be kind to the politicians and governments who coerced people into accepting these experimental injections. The shameful and potentially criminal treatment of Novak Djokovic is a sobering reminder that the pharmaceutical industry’s political stakeholders continue to put profits from vaccines and drugs before public health.