Summary

Andrew and Tristan Tate face charges in Romania for human trafficking, rape, and abuse, yet their trial has been repeatedly delayed using legal tactics to hold up proceedings.

The Tates, notorious for misogynistic and far-right views on social media, allegedly exploited women through the “lover boy” method, in which men pretend to be caring boyfriends before forcing their victims into prostitution as well as appearing in online sex channels and porn films.

Despite a 2024 court decision to proceed with a criminal trial, proceedings have stalled. Romania’s justice system, criticized for leniency toward traffickers, further complicates justice.

The Tates remain publicly popular, with Andrew even receiving applause at a Romanian festival amid these allegations.

  • Snot Flickerman
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    yet their trial has been repeatedly delayed using legal tactics to hold up proceedings.

    It seems like weaponizing the justice systems of the world to let the worst people get away with shit has really become en vogue.

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      1. Its more that they’re returning to the old ways. Unfortunately it was a brief, exclusively western concept that justice was universal.
      2. There is a solution to it. Western Europeans did it before, we can do it again.
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      The worst people who can afford the best skilled lawyers have been trying that kind of shenanigans since the beginning of lawyers and courts.

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    They learned from our local high-profile crooks that if you can delay proceeding for a couple years, the process ends. Or if you know people that know people you might get lucky and a judge retires, in which case the whole thing starts from scratch. Meantime they can continue to build their public image and pick fights with kermit or whoever on twitter. have very little hope that they will be prosecuted “to the full extent of the law”.

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    I was astonished that one of my colleagues is actually a fan of Andrew Tate. Mind you he is also based in Europe, where people tend to be more self aware.

    He actually is also into Trump and is a global warming denier, so I guess he fits the profile and still I think this is the first person I personally know who sympathizes with them.

    The far right is really on the rise and we as humanity seems to have learned absolutely nothing from history.

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    Few months ago I saw one of them driving around in a McLaren, so unfortunately they don’t seem to be that affected by the legal stuff.

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    I don’t know a fucking thing about Romanian law but this sounds 100% normal. If it’s to your advantage to delay then your lawyer will delay.