Following a Romanian judge’s decision, controversial social media influencer Andrew Tate and his sibling Tristan were transferred from custody to house arrest.
The most recent period of custody, which was scheduled to conclude on April 29, has been replaced by the Court of Appeal’s decision in Bucharest.
Unless they have legal authorization to leave, they have been told to remain in the residences they currently occupy.
Andrew, who had been in 24-hour lockdown since last year, uploaded a video of himself pacing around a room and smoking a cigar after being freed. He is saying, “No yard time.”
“Pacing a 3-metre cell with zero electronics or outside contact. Absolute clarity of mind. Real thoughts. Real plans. Vivid pain. One hour home and I can’t stand my phone. Some habits die hard. We must defeat Shaytan,” he added.
Tristan tweeted, “4 months without donning an alligator set of shoes. The conflict was actual.”
Since December, the siblings have been in custody. They are being looked into for alleged rape, human trafficking, and involvement in coordinated crime. Each has refuted any misconduct.
The Tates’ attorneys claimed that keeping him in preventative custody was overly harsh because there were other judicial options, like house arrest, that could have been used instead.
According to the court documents, they detailed testimony from alleged victims who claimed they were coerced into working on social media platforms under the threat of bodily harm.
However, neither the brothers nor the two Romanian friends who were also detained with them have been charged.
Former kickboxer and British-American Andrew Tate was fired from the British television programme Big Brother in 2016 after a video surfaced that looked to show him assaulting a woman.
As a result of his comments that women should “bear responsibility” for being sexually assaulted, he later gained infamy online and was banned from Twitter. He was later given a second chance.
