From a run-in on Twitter to jail? This Thursday night, former British-American kickboxer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan were arrested in Romania as part of an investigation into human trafficking, rape and the formation of an organized criminal group, several local media reported. Two Romanian citizens are also involved in the raid.
According to the Romanian news site Libertatea, they are due to appear in a Bucharest court on Friday and could be subject to a 30-day “preventive arrest”.
“The four suspects (…) appear to have created an organized criminal group with the objective of recruiting, harboring and exploiting women by forcing them to create pornographic content intended to be viewed on specialized websites in exchange for a fee,” prosecutors said. , picked up by the English channel Sky News.
A well-known place of residence…
Since the announcement of this arrest, several Anglo-Saxon media and Internet users have transmitted the information that the 36-year-old man was arrested after his altercation on Twitter with Greta Thunberg. On Wednesday he got back on track after a taunt directed at the climate activist, who in turn questioned his masculinity by evoking his “small penis energy.”
Visibly hurt, Andrew Tate then published a nearly two-minute video in which he multiplied the tirades against the 19-year-old Swedish activist. During this sequence, we also see him receive pizzas from a Romanian restaurant which, according to some netizens, would have allowed the local police to find her trail.
However, according to various Romanian media, this hypothesis is not supported. Libertatae explains in his article that last April, the Romanian police raided Andrew Tate’s villa. Two women, one American and one Romanian, were found forcibly detained by the two brothers. In fact, the Romanian authorities already knew where Tate lived and had opened an investigation against him.
In addition, on Twitter, this same Andrew Tate also did not hesitate to share videos of his life there, the site insists. discrediting American calmdownben. In fact, he himself had informed the Romanian authorities of his presence on December 25, long before his confrontation with Greta Thunberg.
…but an uncertain presence
On the other hand, before this date of December 25, the authorities did not know if Andrew Tate was still present on Romanian soil or not. This is confirmed in an article dedicated to the arrest, Gandul, a Romanian online medium, explains that the authorities “waited for the right moment to catch the Tate brothers.”
Although they knew where Tate lived, local police did not know when Tate would return there after what appears to be several days of absence. This is where social networks have been used by the Romanian Directorate of Investigations on Organized Crime and Terrorism. The final video of her and the pizza boxes was also useful to the police.
“After having verified, even on social networks, that they were together in Romania, the prosecutors mobilized the special troops of the gendarmerie and descended, by force, on his villa in Pipera, but also at other addresses,” he finds out. the middle.
Violence and misogyny
Having become a “toxic” influencer, and a personality renowned for his openly misogynistic positions, Andrew Tate, who has 85 kickboxing fights for 76 wins (including 23 by KO) had also been permanently banned from YouTube, TikTok, Meta (Facebook and Instagram). ) due to developing hate speech about him and openly misogynistic about him. However, Elon Musk had returned his Twitter account, also suspended, at the same time as Donald Trump.
He rose to ‘fame’ in 2016 for being kicked out of the reality show. Older brother after video surfaced showing him beating a woman with a belt.
Subsequently, in his various social networks, he had suggested that rape victims “assumed some responsibility” for their assaults, and had also described women as “property” of men.
As the last slight this Friday, Greta Thunberg joked on Twitter. “This is what happens when you don’t recycle pizza boxes,” she wrote.
Source: BFM TV
