2023-06-20 20:24:44
Arrested at the end of December in Romania after an exchange on social networks with Greta Thunberg which had caused a stir, the American-British was indicted on Tuesday June 20 with his brother.
Manly videos on the internet straight to prison? The American-British influencer Andrew Tate has been indicted “for organizing a criminal group, human trafficking and rape”, announced this Tuesday, June 20 the prosecution in charge of the fight against organized crime (DIICOT). from Romania. Arrested at the end of December, he is kept under house arrest, just like his brother Tristan, charged with the same facts, specifies the press release.
Known for his violent and misogynistic outings, Andrew Tate made the buzz on the internet at the end of December. He first called out green activist Greta Thunberg, bragging on Twitter, offering to email her a list of his “33 cars” including two Ferraris that make “huge emissions” of greenhouse gases. tight. The Swede had answered him in a scathing way, then reversing the course of Twitter for a few hours: “Yes, enlighten me. Write to me at [email protected].» In total, his ironic message has been “liked” more than 3 million times against… a few hundred thousand for that of the influencer. There is no official ranking of the world’s most “liked” tweets, but on Wikipedia, Thunberg’s humorous trait today ranks third place.
“This is what happens when you don’t recycle your pizza boxes”
The story had made even more noise when we learned in the wake of the arrest of Andrew Tate. A rumor, strongly relayed, first said that a pizza box, present in a photo he had sent to Greta Thunberg, had helped to locate him in Romania. The Swede even welcomed it, still on Twitter: “This is what happens when you don’t recycle your pizza boxes.” The truth was less enticing: the Eastern European country had simply been stalking the character for several months. And the pizza didn’t change anything.
It all started in April 2022 with a call from the United States Embassy in Bucharest about the kidnapping of a 21-year-old American woman by the two brothers and her detention in a building in the Ilfov judet, the county surrounding the capital Bucharest. When they got there, the police found her. And another 20-year-old woman.
The Romanian media then reported that the two young women were detained against their will after being victims of a method of “loverboys”. A technique of attracting women – by assuring them sincere love and true feelings – and then forcing them into prostitution and, in this case, shooting video chats. “They were sexually exploited by members of the group who forced them to participate in pornographic productions,” investigators told Romanian media at the end of 2022.
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