Did the Romanian pizza box in response video to Greta Thunberg give away Andrew Tate’s location? - The Independent

Just hours after Andrew Tate’s humiliating Twitter spat with clime activistic Greta Thunberg, the arguable influencer was arrested by Romanian authorities for quality trafficking and rape investigation.

The 36-year-old erstwhile kickboxer, who gained infamy for his misogynist views, was apprehended by Romanian constabulary aft they descended connected a villa wherever helium was staying with his member connected Thursday.

It has been wide speculated connected societal media that the apprehension whitethorn person ne'er happened if helium had not posted a clapback video to mock Ms Thunberg connected Twitter.

Romania’s Directorate for Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism, that had been waiting for 9 months for the Tate brothers to instrumentality to Romania, mobilised forces and descended upon their villa aft learning they were successful the state done their societal media posts, sources adjacent to the probe told Romanian outlet Gandul.

“Romanian authorities needed impervious that Andrew Tate was successful the state truthful they reportedly utilized his societal media posts,” tweeted civilian rights lawyer Alejandra Caraballo, sharing a screenshot of Mr Tate’s video from the time before.

“His ridiculous video yesterday featured a pizza from a Romanian pizza chain, Jerry’s Pizza, confirming helium was successful the country.”

However, successful an interrogation with the Washington Post, Ramona Bolla, a spokeswoman for the Directorate for Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism, denied that the pizza boxes successful the Twitter video played a portion successful Mr Tate’s arrest, saying, “it was a hard occupation gathering each the evidence”.

It began aft Mr Tate attempted to mock Ms Thunberg and tagged the clime activistic successful a Twitter post, asking for her email code truthful helium could “send a implicit database of my car postulation and their respective tremendous emissions”.

The pursuing day, the clime activistic responded with a tweet of her own, replying, “Yes, delight bash enlighten me. email maine astatine smalldi***energy@getalife.com.”

The speech rapidly went viral, with Ms Thunberg’s station garnering millions of likes, and inspired a fig of trending topics.

Mr Tate deed backmost by sharing a effect video, telling Ms Thunberg, a Nobel Prize nominee and Time person of the year, to “get a life”.

In the video, Mr Tate smoked a cigar successful a robe and a idiosyncratic off-camera gave him a stack of pizza boxes from the Romanian pizza chain, Jerry’s Pizza. He tried to gag astir refusing to recycle the boxes to taunt Ms Thunberg.

But Ms Thunberg had the past laugh, posting a tweet pursuing Mr Tate’s apprehension saying: “this is what happens erstwhile you don’t recycle your pizza boxes.”

The Tate brothers person been nether transgression probe since April. They were detained alongside 2 Romanian suspects.

“The 4 suspects ... look to person created an organised transgression radical with the intent of recruiting, lodging and exploiting women by forcing them to make pornographic contented meant to beryllium seen connected specialised websites for a cost,” prosecutors said.

The erstwhile kickboxer gained a ample pursuing of men online, and has been banned from assorted societal media sites, for his assertive and oftentimes misogynistic views, including that women should “shut the f**k up, person kids, beryllium astatine home, beryllium quiescent and marque coffee”.

His relationship connected Twitter was reinstated alongside Donald Trump and Kanye West pursuing Elon Musk’s takeover.

In 2016, helium was booted retired from the world TV amusement Big Brother, aft a video emerged of him hitting a pistillate with a belt, and a 2nd clip showed him telling the pistillate to number the bruises helium had near connected her body.