Rolf Buchholz, a German famed for having 453 piercings and an implanted pair of horns, was prevented from coming into Dubai for a nightclub present, after customs officers deemed his presence a “security risk.”
“At the end I got an answer why I can’t enter Dubai: The Immigration thought I am Black Magic. Stupid people!!!” the 53-year-old IT employee, who entered the Guinness Book of World Records two years in the past, wrote on his Facebook web page.
“Airport authorities stated they could not allow him to enter the country due to security reasons,” a supply within the UAE instructed the native 7Days newspaper.
Buchholz was attributable to make an look on the risqué Freaks and Beats present at Dubai’s Cirque le Soir nightclub, an outpost of Western-style hedonism within the comparatively tolerant, however nonetheless conservative Muslim state.
The membership even despatched two of its staff to attempt to assist the stranded Buccholz, lots of whose piercings are positioned in intimate areas, however obtained quick shrift from bemused border officers.
The evidently crestfallen performer – who additionally moonlights as an erotic mannequin – live-blogged his agonizing wait on the border, and eventual deportation to Istanbul on social media, inflicting righteous indignation amongst his quite a few followers.
UAE, which operates complicated face scanner software program at its entry factors, has grow to be infamous for having one of many strictest border regimes on this planet. Previous victims of tight safety have included a man detained for importing opium (after poppy seeds from a bun had been discovered on his garments) and one other, who was branded a medication mule after a chunk of hashish lighter than a sugar grain was detected in his shoe.
