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Tennis star Novak Djokovic has been detained in a hotel after he failed to produce required papers for entry into Australia. He is being hauled up at a Melbourne immigration detention facility.

The world’s no-1 tennis player was denied entry by authorities as wasn’t vaccinated. Djokovic was set to take part in the Australian Open as he landed at Melbourne’s Tullamarine airport on Wednesday.

Djokovic is reportedly being held at Park Hotel in Melbourne. Djokovic’s mother Dijana alleged that his “accommodation is terrible” and he is being put in a “small, immigration hotel with bugs”

“It’s all dirty, the food is terrible,” Dijana said as even as Djokovic’s wife thanked supporters amid the vaccine row.

Djokovic’s father alleged his son was a victim of a “political witch hunt” and “corona fascism”.

Djokovic’s mother said the tennis ace is having trouble sleeping and he is not been given a chance to move to a “better hotel” or a “rented house”.

Meanwhile, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic declared that the whole country was backing the tennis star as he added that “authorities are undertaking all measures in order that maltreatment of the world’s best tennis player ends as soon as possible.”

The Serbian government said, “Djokovic is not a criminal, terrorist or illegal migrant” amid an escalating diplomatic row with Australia.

There were also protests outside the hotel where Djokovic is being detained as police moved to clear the area.

Djokovic appealed his deportation and which is set to last until Monday when his case will be heard in court.

The Australian Open begins on January 17.

(With inputs from Agencies)

Discrete information emerging, following the crashed military plane that took the lives of seven personnel, has it that the pilots of the ill-fated Nigeria Airforce Plane Code-named The King Air 350 vehemently refused to fly the plane,

insisting that it was faulty and might not reach target destination, a complain, LeadingReporters learnt was hushed down and branded “insubordination” by the higher authorities with a threat of detention of the officers, if they refused to fly the plane.

A source who spoke to LeadingReporters on condition of anonymity said that the officers have severally complained that the plane needed total overhauling and may pose a flying danger if deployed on any assignment.

The source said that when the position of the lead pilot was made known to the higher authorities in the Nigeria Airforce, an order to detain them in the officers’ mess was given. Their genuine concerned were believed to mean insubordination.

“There were asked to choose between flying the plane on the errand they were sent to and being detained in the mess. At first the officers accepted to be detained, knowing too well that it was a journey they may arrive alive or never arrive at all.

“It was after much persuasion from their colleagues that the officers grudgingly boarded the problematic plane that ended their young lives and career.

Recall that an aircraft that belonged to Nigeria Airforce, named The KingAir 350 heading to Minna, Niger State crashed moments it left the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport over reported engine failure.

Nigerians are wondering where billions of Naira being voted for security are spent if the aircrafts owned by the military would be left in such condition that resulted in the deaths of its officers, seven promising young Nigerians.

Detention

Novak Djokovic saga: In a dirty immigration Lodge with bugs, His mother on Australian detention

Exposed: Pilots of Ill-fated Military plane Were Threatened with Detention for Refusing to Fly “A faulty plane”

Discrete information emerging, following the crashed military plane that took the lives of seven personnel, has it that the pilots of the ill-fated Nigeria Airforce Plane Code-named The King Air 350 vehemently refused to fly the plane,