Australian Open : Serbia President calls Djokovic’s deportation unjust, Morgan label him a liar
Djokovic lost his deportation appeal
Serbia President Aleksandar Vučić has described the cancellation of Noval Djokovic visa, exclusion from participating in Australia Open and his eventual deportation as perversion of the course of justice but celebrity journalists Pier Morgan praised to Australian government for riding the system of a liar and a cheat.
“They think that they humiliated Djokovic with this 10-day harassment, but they actually humiliated themselves. If you said that the person who was not vaccinated has no right to enter, Novak would not come or would get vaccinated," Vučić told reporters.
He said he told Djokovic "that we can’t wait to see him in Serbia, to return to his country, to come where he is always welcome.”
He did not say whether Djokovic discussed whether he would first go to Serbia following his deportation.
But Morgan labelled Novak Djokovic a 'cheat' and a 'liar'. The unvaccinated world number one now faces a three-year ban from returning to the country after almost two weeks of controversy in Melbourne.
Taking to Twitter on Sunday morning, Morgan expressed his delight at Djokovic's impending deportation from Down Under.
Accompanied by clapping emojis, he wrote: "Covid rule cheat, immigration form liar, and anti-vaxxer icon Djokovic loses final appeal against deportation and will be thrown out of Australia without being able to compete in Australian Open. Good."
Morgan had previously shared his disgust after Djokovic admitted adding misinformation onto his Australian immigration forms and attending an interview after testing positive for Covid.
Djokovic’s visa was initially cancelled on 6 January at Melbourne’s airport hours after he arrived to compete in the first Grand Slam of 2022.
A border official cancelled his visa after deciding Djokovic did not qualify for a medical exemption from Australia’s rules for unvaccinated visitors.
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Tennis Australia and the Victoria State Government had granted the 34-year-old, openly opposed to Covid vaccination, a medical exception to play at the 2022 Australian Open.
But he had his visa revoked after being held by the Australian Border Force upon arrival at Melbourne Airport on January 5.
After spending four nights in an immigration detention hotel, Djokovic won a court appeal against the cancellation and looked set to start his title defence on Monday.
But he later admitted that there was a 'human error' in his travel declaration, as it failed to show he had been in multiple countries within two weeks before his Australia entry.
