Controversial social media personality Andrew Tate was arrested in Romania on suspicion of human trafficking, rape and forming an organized criminal group. According to Reuters, Mr. Tate was arrested along with his brother Tristan and two Romanian suspects after they raided his home in the capital, Bucharest.
“The 4 Array-suspects. . . appear to have created an organized criminal organization with the aim of recruiting, harboring and exploiting women by forcing them to create pornographic content for viewing on specialized programs in exchange for a fee,” prosecutors said, according to Reuters.
A video released by Romania’s Directorate of Investigations into Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) and shared on Twitter showed guns, knives and a demonstration in a room of Mr. S. Tate.
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The two brothers and the other two suspects will be detained for 24 hours. Prosecutors discovered six women who had been sexually exploited through the suspects. However, Tate reportedly said that women are partly to blame for the rape and belong to men.
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Meanwhile, it comes after the former kickboxer became embroiled in a Twitter war of words with teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg. old after telling him he had 33 cars with “huge emissions. “
On Wednesday, she then responded to Thunberg in a video, in which she saw smoking a cigar in a silk dress and wondering the teen climate activist’s gender. Mr. Tate also insulted Ms. Thunberg with hateful comments.
According to the BBC, Mr. Tate rose to fame in 2016 as a guest on the British truth show “Big Brother. “At the time, Mr Tate said the video had been altered and called it a “total lie”.
The British citizen then gained notoriety online. It banned Twitter and other social media platforms, adding YouTube, Facebook and Instagram, for their misogynistic posts. Elon Musk rescinded Tate’s Twitter ban just a month ago.
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