Influencer and kickboxer Andrew Tate was arrested Thursday along with his brother in Romania on suspicion of human trafficking.
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Now the controversial influencer has been detained for 30 days, according to Reuters – something from Romanian prosecutors had notified they wanted Friday earlier.
According to the BBC, Tate’s brother, as well as two other people, are also in custody.
A luxury mansion belonging to Tate and his brother was raided by armed police on Thursday after they went under investigation for months over the alleged kidnapping of two young women in the town of Voluntari.
Tate’s home was also raided earlier this year by Romanian police on charges of organized human trafficking.
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The police said on Thursday that the two British brothers have been under investigation for several months for an alleged kidnapping of two young women in the town of Voluntari.
They are also suspected of rape and of forming an organized crime group for human trafficking. In addition to the two brothers, two Romanian citizens will also be part of this group, according to the press release.
Tate has yet to comment directly on the allegations. But around 11.30 on Friday Norwegian time, there was activity on her Twitter account.
“The Matrix has sent its agents,” he wrote cryptically.
A feud on Twitter between Tate and environmental activist Gretha Thunberg – and a picture of a pizza box has i the aftermath of the arrest led to intense speculation.
The Swedish newspaper The evening paper writes that there are speculations that Tate’s Twitter response to Thunberg had an impact on the arrest.
In a video Tate posted on Twitter, on the table in front of him is a pizza box with the logo of a local pizza place in the town where he lives, Jerry’s Pizza.
Because of the box, the police may have received confirmation of his whereabouts in the country and that they could then arrest him on short notice.
At least that’s the theory of American social media expert Alejandra Caraballo of Harvard University, who posted a Twitter message with a photo of Tate’s pizza box, where she speculates whether it was this photo that was decisive for the police arrest.
On Friday morning, Gretha Thunberg commented on the “pizza tweet”:
– This is what happens when you don’t recycle your pizza boxes.
