(20 Jan 2023)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bucharest – 20 January 2023
1. Various exteriors of police compound where social media personality Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan are detained, vehicles ++MUTE++
2. US General Consul John Henry Gimbel IV arriving to visit Tate brothers, media ++MUTE++
3. Entrance of compound ++MUTE++
4. Gimbel leaving ++MUTE++
5. Various exteriors of tribunal headquarters
6. SOUNDBITE (Romanian) Ioan Gliga, lawyer:
“I consider the decision as totally unjustified and it’s impressive the speed the solution was adopted. Only an hour ago, the session was closed and the file has 20 volumes, I find it very hard to believe that someone has the physical capacity to study the file in such a short time, as only yesterday it reached the tribunal and to pronounce a decision with a thorough argument.”
7. Various interiors of tribunal, cameras in lobby
STORYLINE:
A judge in Romania granted prosecutors on Friday another request to extend by 30 days the arrest of Andrew Tate, the social media personality who has been detained in the country for weeks as prosecutors investigate a case of human trafficking and rape, an official said.
Tate, 36, a British-US citizen who has 4.7 million followers on Twitter, was initially detained on December 29. in Bucharest, Romania’s capital, on charges of being part of an organised crime group, human trafficking, and rape.
His brother, Tristan and two Romanian women are also detained in the same case.
Ioan Gliga, a lawyer for the Tate brothers, said he considered the decision as “totally unjustified.”
Prosecutors had requested on Thursday for the second 30-day extension to keep all four in detention while investigations continue.
That request was granted to prosecutors on Friday.
The judge’s decision on Friday comes after all four lost an appeal last week at a Bucharest court which ruled to uphold a judge’s December 30 move to uphold an earlier decision to extend their arrest from 24 hours to 30 days.
AP video by Nicolae Dumitrache
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