Andrew Tate’s humiliating Twitter spat with climate activist Greta Thunberg appeared to have led to his arrest by Romanian authorities for human trafficking and rape investigation.

Mr Tate, a former kickboxer who gained infamy for his misogynist views, was busted by Romanian police tactical gear after they descended on a villa where he was staying with his brother Tristan on Thursday.

It is speculated that the arrest may have never happened if he had not posted a clapback video to mock Ms Thunberg on Twitter.

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Andrew Tate has been criticised for peddling “misogynistic views” and “negative presentations of masculinity”. Read his profile by Saman Javed here:

A rights group called GRETA (Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings) had called attention to the crime in Romania last year, even as far-right influencer Andrew Tate was detained by authorities in the country on Thursday.

In a press release in June 2021, GRETA had urged Romania to ensure that human trafficking offences lead to effective and dissuasive sanctions and that victims of trafficking have access to compensation.

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Romania’s Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism said in a release on Thursday that two unnamed British citizens, as well as two Romanians, were detained for 24 hours for questioning as part of an investigation into women allegedly being lured into marriages, abused, then coerced into performing in exploitative online pornography videos.

Read the full story by Josh Marcus here:

Andrew Tate has been criticised for peddling “misogynistic views” and “negative presentations of masculinity”. Read his profile by Saman Javed here:

Romania’s Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism said in a release on Thursday that two unnamed British citizens, as well as two Romanians, were detained for 24 hours for questioning as part of an investigation into women allegedly being lured into marriages, abused, then coerced into performing in exploitative online pornography videos.

Read the full story by Josh Marcus here:

His two-minute video came 10 hours after the teenage climate activist invited him to “enlighten” her on the emissions from his car collection by emailing “smalld***energy@getalife.com”.

In his response, Tate claimed that Thunberg was referring to herself with the viral tweet.

“Greta’s email address is ‘I have small d*** energy’. Why would that be her own email? Strange,” he said.

“I don’t want to assume her gender, it’s 50/50, but it is what it is.”

Tate then added: “I’m not actually mad at Greta.”

Watch the video here:

It was a moment of pure, unadulterated, snort-Diet-Coke-from-your-nose joy. It was Twitter at its very best.

Nineteen-year-old Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg, four times Nobel Peace Prize nominee and youngest ever Time person of the year, slapped down controversial influencer Andrew Tate in the most supremely careless and perfect way, writes Harriet Williamson:

Romanian authorities say that the Tate brothers used a “loverboy method” to lure women into their human trafficking ring.

The statement by the Directorate for Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism said: “The injured persons were recruited by British citizens [Tate brothers] by misleading as to the intention to establish a marriage/cohabitation relationship and the existence of real feelings of love (the loverboy method).”

It added that “they were subsequently transported and housed in buildings in Ilfov County where, through the exercise of acts of physical violence and mental coercion (through intimidation, constant supervision, control and invocation of alleged debts), they were sexually exploited by the members of the group by forcing pornographic manifestations in order to produce and disseminate through social media platforms of material of such character and by subjecting them to the execution of work, forcibly, in order to obtain significant financial benefits consisting of sums of money obtained as a result of access to the materials by users.”

Andrew Tate along with his brother Tristan Tate has been detained for 24 hours in Romania for questioning by the police.

Romania’s Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism said in a release on Thursday that two unnamed British citizens, as well as two Romanians, were detained for 24 hours for questioning as part of an investigation into women allegedly being lured into marriages, abused, then coerced into performing in exploitative online pornography videos.

Read the full story by Josh Marcus here: