Posted on 02/18/2021 9:23:03 AM PST by RandFan
A British father-of-one tried to break out of a quarantine hotel near London Heathrow Airport this morning and has gone on hunger strike after claiming he is being held there 'under duress', MailOnline can reveal.
Anthony Pium, 30, from Leyton, East London, was involved in an angry confrontation with security guards as he tried to force his way out of the Radisson Blu Edwardian hotel 'to get some fresh air'.
An exclusive video filmed by Mr Pium shows him being forced back into the hotel. Security guards surrounded him and pushed him back as he asked to be allowed out for some air and repeatedly told them to social distance.
It comes after new rules introduced on Monday mean people arriving in England must quarantine in a hotel for ten days at a cost of £1,750 ($2,450) if they have been to a country with a high Covid risk, such as Portugal or Brazil.
But Mr Pium today told MailOnline of his anguish of been detained at Heathrow last night, after he flew in from Sao Paulo, where he was working for his travel agency Sky Fly Travel.
He said: 'I am being held under duress. I have not willingly signed any form that consents to me being held in quarantine at a hotel because of the Covid crisis.'
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You can break out any time you like, but you can never leave.
They haven’t had that spirit there since, 1969.
A hunger strike is kind of pointless if he’s going to be out of quarantine in 9 days anyway. Might as well just call it a diet.
Quarantining people in a country that has large numbers of cases all over the place seems sort of pointless. It’s not like they’re actually keeping anything out. The time for that was a year ago but the PC patrol made sure that never happened.
The Prisoner.....
"The new Number Two."
my kids live in Paris, this will be the first year I do not see them in my sons 21 years. Cannot afford 2 weeks in a Paris hotel
Great Minds Think Alike. You were thinking of Hotel California too.
Blu Edwardian hotel. Sounds a bit kinky.
“Who is Number One?”
Either “You are Number Six!” or “You are, Number Six!”
“I am not a number, I am a free man!”
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha”
Que guitar by Dave Murray....
Music references in replies PING
“I am not a number; I’m a free man!”
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