Andrew Tate Will Stay In Jail In Romania For 30-Days

The contentious social media celebrity Andrew Tate was detained in Romania on suspicion of organized crime, human trafficking, and rape.

An official says that a Romanian court has upheld Andrew Tate’s 30-day detention on charges of organized crime, human trafficking, and rape. Tate is a controversial figure on social media who calls himself a misogynist.

According to Ramona Bolla, a spokeswoman for Romania’s anti-organized crime organization DIICOT, the court in Bucharest rejected Tate’s appeal against a judge’s earlier order to extend his incarceration from one day to 30 days.

Two Women Arrested Along Side Tate

Andrew, 36, a British-American citizen with 4.5 million Twitter followers, was arrested for 24 hours on December 29 with his brother Tristan. Two Romanian women were also apprehended.

On December 30, the Bucharest Court of Appeal turned down all four appeals against a judge’s decision to grant prosecutors’ request to keep the person in jail longer. A document detailing the judge’s earlier ruling noted that “the risk of them escaping investigations cannot be overlooked” and that they could “leave Romania and settle in countries that do not allow extradition.”

Andrew and the other three defendants were handcuffed and brought away from the Bucharest court in the afternoon, hours before the court ruled against them.

They have denied guilt through their lawyers, and the 30-day detention order has been contested.

Posts With Cryptic Meanings

After losing his appeal, Tate tweeted something cryptic: “When Allah stated, ‘I test only those I love.'” I treated the suffering as an honor – Abu Hurayrah.” It was one of several unclear posts on his account after his detention.

Tate is said to be a former professional kickboxer who has been living in Romania since 2017. In the past, he wasn’t allowed to use many popular social media sites to post hateful things about women. He insulted teenage climate campaigner Greta Thunberg on Twitter the week before his arrest.

In the trafficking case, DIICOT said it had found six victims who had been sexually exploited and subjected to “acts of physical violence and mental coercion” by the alleged criminal group members.

The agency says that the accused persecutors tricked the victims into doing pornographic things to make money for them. The victims were threatened, kept under surveillance, and subjected to other control measures.

SOURCE – (AJ)