Social Media Personality Andrew Tate ‘Arrested’ in Romania on Human Trafficking Charges

The self-styled misogynist internet celebrity Andrew Tate has reportedly been arrested in Romania on human trafficking charges.

British-American Tate, 36, has accumulated a gigantic following of young men through Twitter, Instagram and TikTok.

According to Romanian newspaper Gândul, he and brother Tristan were arrested in Bucharest and will be detained for 24 hours.

It reported that the US Embassy received a grievance that a woman with American citizenship was being detained at their home without consent.

A former policewoman also accused of involvement in the implicated trafficking has also been arrested on the same charges.

Former Big Brother contestant Tate has almost 3.5 million Twitter followers.

He recently got into a social media argument with climate change activist Greta Thunberg.

After boasting about the carbon emissions of his supercars, Thunberg replied that Tate had “small d*** energy”.

Thunberg’s roast got her close to three million likes.

Andrew and Tristan Tate are escorted by police officers outside the headquarters of the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism in Bucharest on Dec. 29.

Tate has obtained further fame online for a number of comments about women, including suggesting that they “bear some responsibility” for being assaulted – an incident for which he was banned from Twitter.

A number of campaign groups have critiqued Mr. Tate for his views and cautioned he was a threat to young men and boys who see his content online, urging the various platforms on which he is active to remove him.

Domestic abuse charities have called his content “extreme misogyny”.