Ex-kickboxer Andrew Tate’s Romania detention replaced with house arrest
- Social media personality Tate and his brother Tristan have spent months in a Romanian prison on suspicion of organised crime and human trafficking
- Tate, an influencer who has lived in Romania since 2017, was previously banned from various social media platforms for expressing misogynistic views
Andrew Tate, the divisive internet personality who has spent months in a Romanian jail on suspicion of organised crime and human trafficking, has won an appeal to replace his detention with house arrest, an official said on Friday.
The Bucharest Court of Appeal ruled in favour of Tate’s appeal, which challenged a judge’s decision last week to extend his arrest a fourth time for 30 days, said Ramona Bolla, a spokesperson for Romania’s anti-organised crime agency, DIICOT.
All four won an appeal on Friday and will remain under house arrest until April 29, Bolla said. None of the four has yet been formally indicted. The court ruled in favour of their immediate release. Prosecutors cannot challenge the appeal court’s decision, which was final, Bolla added.
As the brothers left the detention facility late on Friday in Bucharest, Tristan Tate told a scrum of reporters that “the judges today made the right decision.”
“I respect what they’ve done for me and they will be vindicated in their decision, because I’m an innocent man and I can’t wait to prove it,” he said.
Some Tate supporters outside the facility chanted “Top-G, Top-G,” using a popular moniker used by many of Andrew Tate’s fans.