Arrested and placed Thursday evening in police custody – like his brother and two Romanian nationals – the ex-kickboxer and British influencer Andrew Tate will remain in prison. A Romanian court has indeed ordered his continued detention for 30 days on Friday.
A Romanian court on Friday ordered the detention for 30 days of controversial former kickboxer and influencer Andrew Tate in a pimping case, a spokeswoman for the anti-mafia prosecution told AFP on Friday.
Andrew Tate, his brother and two Romanian citizens, who had been taken into custody on Thursday evening, are suspected of human trafficking, rape and formation of a criminal group.
It was after a hearing lasting several hours that the Bucharest court decided to keep the defendants in detention for 30 days, said a spokeswoman for the DIICOT anti-mafia prosecution, Ramona Bolla.
A heated exchange with Greta Thunberg
Andrew Tate had a heated exchange this week, which went viral, with Greta Thunberg on social networks, in which he congratulated himself on emitting a lot of greenhouse gases with his collection of big cars.
At the news of her arrest, the Swedish activist tweeted ironically on Friday morning: “This is what happens when you don’t recycle your pizza wrappers”. This message, “liked” at this point 2.4 million times, helped fuel speculation that Tate had been located by Romanian authorities thanks to the pizza wrapper visible in a video response he sent to him. sent on Wednesday. Romanian prosecutors, however, denied this. “It’s not related,” reacted Ms. Bolla.
“To determine whether a person is in the country or not, we use a whole range of means”, she added, specifying that “arrest warrants and searches” were already ready.
The survey launched in early 2021
The prosecution has been investigating since the beginning of 2021 and had already searched a villa of Andrew Tate last April. Six potential victims have been identified at this stage. Duped by the two men who feigned feelings for them and then sequestered them, they were allegedly forced by violence into prostitution and the production of pornographic films.
The prosecutor’s office released images of the searches, on which we can see firearms, wads of cash and sports cars seized in different places in Romania. According to the Romanian press, two women, including an American citizen, had been freed in the spring by the police from the property of the Tate brothers. Both men moved to Romania a few years ago.
Andrew Tate, who also has US citizenship, had appeared on the TV show Big Brother in 2016. He was eliminated from the competition after a video emerged showing him punching a woman. He then turned to social networks where he promoted masculinist theses. His accounts had all been suspended for misogynistic comments. In particular, he considered that women victims of sexual abuse should be held responsible.
In the wake of the takeover of Twitter by Elon Musk, his account domiciled in Dubai had however been reactivated on the social network. He is followed by 3.6 million people.
