Three months after a hell of a stroke of karma, when he was arrested after a Twitter skirmish with environmentalist Greta Thunberg, Andrew Tate is released from prison. The American-British influencer and his brother Tristan, arrested at the end of December in Romania in a pimping case, were released from detention on Friday and will now be under house arrest.
“The prosecutor’s proposal to extend” their imprisonment “is rejected” and “this preventive measure is replaced” by a “house arrest” with immediate effect, the Bucharest Court of Appeal ordered on Friday. Andrew Tate, 36, and Tristan, 34, are suspected of having deceived “several victims, including minors” for “sexual exploitation” purposes, in particular for the production of pornographic films, according to the prosecution responsible for the fight against organized crime (DIICOT).
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Accompanied by one of their Romanian lawyers, they came out around midnight, with full beards, from the police premises where they had been detained for three months, in a chaotic atmosphere. About twenty curious people and a few fans of Andrew Tate, one of the most famous masculinist influencers in the world, had crowded in front of the building and greeted him with cries of “Top G” (for gangster), his nickname, everything while filming with their phone.
The detention of the two men, who claim their innocence, had been extended several times and for the last time on March 22, despite numerous appeals. “The judges made the right decision,” said Tristan Tate, his brother remaining silent. “We’re going home,” he added in Romanian. Their defense has regularly denounced an empty file supported by no tangible evidence and refuted any risk of departure abroad, arguing their clients’ links with the country. Tristan Tate is the father of a baby born during his detention.
They are “prohibited from coming into contact with people involved in the case,” said their lawyer Eugen Vidineac, according to whom “being on the run is not a life that the Tate brothers want to have. They are just tired and want to rest,” he said. With them were released two Romanians, a former police officer and Andrew Tate’s girlfriend. They had been arrested alongside them on December 29 during a vast operation carried out after several months of investigation.