(12 Mar 2024)
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Bucharest - 12 March 2024
1. Wide of online influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate arriving at the Court of Appeal
UPSOUND (English): "Andrew, are you ready to go back to London? Why do you think they reopened the case?"
STORYLINE:
Online influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate arrived at the Court of Appeal in Bucharest on Tuesday after British authorities issued an arrest warrant for the pair.
Tate, 37, and his brother Tristan Tate were detained on Monday evening for 24 hours on allegations of sexual aggression in a U.K. case dating back to 2012-2015, spokesperson Mateea Petrescu said.
She said the Bucharest Court of Appeal is set to make a “pivotal decision” Tuesday on whether to execute the warrants issued by U.K.’s Westminster Magistrates Court.
Four women had reported Tate to the U.K. authorities for alleged sexual violence and physical abuse, but the Crown Prosecution Service decided not to prosecute him.
The alleged victims then turned to crowdfunding to cover their legal costs as they pursue a civil case against him.
“We handed over our evidence about the horrific acts of violence we endured and waited for action. But four years later we were told the U.K. authorities would not prosecute him,” they state on their campaign page.
“It’s our one remaining route to hold him accountable.”
Petrescu said Tuesday that the Tate brothers, who are dual U.K. and U.S. citizens, reject the charges and “express profound disappointment that such serious allegations are being resurrected without substantial new evidence.”
Tate is charged in a separate case in Romania with rape, human trafficking and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women.
He was arrested near Bucharest in December 2022 along with his brother Tristan and two Romanian women.
Romanian prosecutors formally indicted all four in June last year and they have denied the allegations.
Andrew Tate, who has amassed 8.9 million followers on the social media platform X, has repeatedly claimed that prosecutors in Romania have no evidence against him and that there is a political conspiracy to silence him.
He was previously banned from various prominent social media platforms for expressing misogynistic views and for hate speech.
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