ANDREW TATE THE "KING OF MISOGYNES"

ARRESTED IN ROMANIA

FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND RAPE

His name emerged in his last days due to a skirmish with Greta Thunberg, a Swedish environmental activist. Andrew Tate provoked the young woman on Twitter:

“Please send me your email so I can send you the full list of my car collection and the huge shows of each.”

The response of the interested party was not long in coming: “Yes, please, enlighten me.

The buzz was overwhelming. He could have stopped there but Andrew Tate saw fit to add a layer. The 36-year-old responded to Greta Thunberg with a two-minute video in which we see a pizza delivery box. Fatal error: this pizza would have led the police to him.

And this Thursday, December 29, 2022, it is for another reason that his name ended up in one of the media. The authorities have indeed announced that they have placed the Anglo-American in police custody while he is suspected of human trafficking, rape and of being at the head of a criminal organization. His brother Tristan was also arrested.

Police said they will be detained for 24 hours along with two other Romanian suspects. “The four men appear to have launched a criminal organization with the aim of recruiting, harboring and exploiting women by forcing them to create pornographic content distributed on specialized sites, available in exchange for money,” the prosecutor said.

"They have won a large sum".

Violent and misogynistic

Authorities said they found at least six women who were possibly abused by the suspects. According to the full police statement, taken up by the Romanian media "Adevarul", the victims were recruited after being tricked by the suspects "who made them believe that they were going to start a relationship with them, leaving them to imagine real feelings of love.

They were then taken to and housed in apartment buildings in Ilfov County where they suffered acts of physical violence and mental coercion (through intimidation, constant surveillance, control and invocation of alleged debts). It is added: “With regard to the crime of rape, it was noted that in March 2022, an injured person was forced, twice, by a suspect by the exercise of physical violence and psychological pressure to have sex."

Accusations of extreme gravity that do not date from this week. For years, the masculinist and wealthy entrepreneur has embodied and promoted violence against women, including through rape culture. Last April, the Romanian police had already raided his home, where this former kickboxing champion in the mid-2000s allegedly detained two women against their will.

Tate banned from social media

A candidate for a reality show in 2016, he was removed from the program after the publication of a video in which he was seen hitting a woman. A year later, #MeToo erupts and all-Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein falls under the weight of multiple charges of rape, sexual assault and abuse of power. Andrew Tate, he is illustrated by yet another misogynistic and dangerous remark, affirming that women are responsible for the rapes of which they have been victims.

On Youtube, in a video posted on his channel, he claims that women are "property of men" or gives advice on how to attack them. “You grab it, you slap it, you strangle it and you fuck it”, he says for example.

In an Interview with Fox News last summer, he explained that he had been banned from social networks because the platforms felt threatened by the fact that he affected a large part of the population with his "traditional masculinist ideas", repeating his credo that men suffer in silence and no longer have the right to defend themselves.

According to the BBC, this Anglo-American moved to Romania five years ago to escape prosecution on suspicion of sex crimes.

The influencer who proudly displays his wealth on video explained in one that he chose to move to Romania because Romanian police were less likely to pursue sexual assault allegations.

On The Fellas Podcast, he added that "Western society is degraded and corrupt". His arrest today seems to prove him wrong.

Greta Thunberg reacted to the announcement of her arrest with irony, always with a tweet:

" This is what happens when you don't recycle your pizza boxes ".