Climate activist Greta Thunberg slammed former kickboxer Andrew Tate on Twitter on Friday after he and his brother Tristan were arrested in Romania on suspicion of human trafficking, rape and forming an organized crime group.
Tate’s arrest came two days after he and Thunberg became involved in a dispute that some say led to the downfall of the internet personality.
In a bizarre video posted to his Twitter on Wednesday, Tate sat in a red robe smoking a cigar and taking an order for pizza, saying he would make sure the “boxes [were] not recycled,” before proceeding to rebuke Thunberg and her beliefs on climate policy.
In this still taken from video posted by Observator Antena 1, social media personality Andrew Tate is taken away by police in the Ilfov area, north of Bucharest, Romania, on Thursday, December 29, 2022.
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However, according to multiple reports, the pizza boxes in the video alerted authorities to the fact that Tate, who had apparently been under criminal investigation since April, was back in the county.
Fox News Digital was unable to independently verify if “Jerry’s pizza” was indeed what led Romanian authorities to descend on his villa.
Following news of Tate’s arrest, Thunberg took to Twitter early Friday morning to say: “This is what happens when you don’t recycle pizza boxes.”
The online spat began Tuesday when Tate appeared to mock Thunberg by calling out the climate activist in a post accompanied by a photo of him filling up his Bugatti at a gas station and asking for her email address so he could “send a full list of my collection of cars and their respective huge emissions.
A day later, Thunberg replied to the message, saying, “Yes, please enlighten me. Email me at smalld—energy@getalife.com.”
Authorities requested an extension of Tate’s detention after he was originally scheduled to be detained for 24 hours.
Andrew Tate, center, and Tristan Tate are escorted by police officers out of the Bucharest Organized Crime and Terrorism Investigation Directorate headquarters after being detained for 24 hours, in Bucharest, Romania, December 29, 2022.
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Romanian prosecutors asked a Bucharest court on Friday to extend his arrest for 30 days, Reuters reported.
Tate, who was banned from Twitter for misogynistic comments and hate speech before Elon Musk took office, is believed to have been involved in a human trafficking scheme with his brother and two other suspects in which at least six women were sexually exploited.
“The four suspects… appear to have created an organized crime group for the purpose of recruiting, harboring and exploiting women by forcing them to create pornographic content intended for viewing on specialized websites for a fee,” prosecutors said according to reported Reuters.
Andrew Tate, center, and Tristan Tate are escorted by police officers out of the Bucharest Organized Crime and Terrorism Investigation Directorate headquarters after being detained for 24 hours, in Bucharest, Romania, December 29, 2022.
(Reuters)
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“They would have earned significant sums of money,” they added.
Tate, who previously said women should “take some responsibility” for being raped, has not commented publicly following her arrest.
