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Special security for Novak in Belgium

Ivan Đurđević | 31. 01. 2013. - 02:00h | Comments 0 .

The world’s best tennis player Novak Djokovic shall have a special private security during Davis Cup matches between Serbia and Denmark in the City of Charleroi this weekend, Blic learns at the local police. Although large number of Albanians is living there, the organizers claim that there is no chance that anything might happen to Novak. The only danger would be should he decide to have a walk in the downtown.


Novak Djokovic in Charleroi yesterday

A police inspector in charge of security of our tennis players said for Blic that the local police shall do everything that Novak feels safe in Belgium since it is known that large number of Albanians are living in this town and that they might cause incidents during the stay of Serbia Davis Cup team in that town.


‘We have undertaken all necessary measures that Serbian tennis players are safe and we got the information that a special private security coming with Novak will guard him, too. We shall deploy our special units as well as ordinary policemen’, the police inspector said.

We asked whether the problem might also be the fact that our tennis players are staying in a hotel at the airport.

‘It is of no importance where the Serbian tennis players shall be accommodated if they are strongly guarded. The hotel is absolutely safe and there shall be no problems’, the inspector insisted.

We got some very interesting data from colleagues of the local ‘Nuvelle Gazette’.
‘We all know that Djokovic is coming to Charleroi and the whole city is preparing for that. Certainly there is no unnecessary euphoria, but we are glad to host him. As regards security, Novak should not worry. The arena at which the matches are to take place the ‘Spirudom’ is in a very calm part of the city at the periphery and there have been no incidents ever. The same case is with the hotel. There might be problems should Djokovic decide to have a walk in the downtown since the Albanians usually gather there’, Gregory Jenko, a journalist of the ‘Nuveulle Gazette’ said.


Charleroi not a peaceful town

According to the latest census the population of Charleroi numbers 204,000 people. A large percentage of them are Albanians, In Belgium there live about 200,000 Albanians. It is an industrial town 55 kilometers south of Brussels. Incidents especially ahead of sports events are quite usual.

http://english.blic.rs/Sports/9407/S...vak-in-Belgium