Andrew Tate news – latest: Influencer loses appeal over police detention for 30 more days

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A Romanian MP says the two main political parties running the country are “patriarchal” in terms of their “internal culture” as well as their decision making.

And campaigners say a high proportion of men in Romania hold misogynistic views. Maya Oppenheim reports:

Judges in Romania last month kept the Tates behind bars because of their “particular dangerousness”, it has been revealed.

A document seen by the Associated Press explaining the decision said the judge took into account the “particular dangerousness of the defendants” and their capacity to identify victims “with an increased vulnerability, in search of better life opportunities”.

The brothers, who were initially detained in Bucharest in late December, failed to overturn the decision to extend for a second time their detention by 30 days at the request of prosecutors. They previously lost a first appeal against an earlier extension.

Police are investigating “abusive and grossly offensive” messages sent to Labour MP Alex Davies-Jones, after she spoke out against Andrew Tate.

Ms Davies-Jones told the Commons on Tuesday she has been “bombarded” with messages containing death and rape threats after she made comments critical of Mr Tate, who has a large social media following.

A South Wales Police officer said the force was “investigating the origins of abusive and grossly offensive social media messages and emails aimed at a local MP”.

Earlier this month, at a session of Prime Minister’s Questions, Ms Davies-Jones raised concerns over the impact of Tate‘s content on schoolboys.

She said: “Teachers are now having to develop their own resources to re-educate boys who are being brainwashed online by his deeply toxic messaging.”

Andrew Tate launched a bizarre Twitter rant as he lost his appeal against detention behind bars for 30 more days.

“Even if you feel powerful every day, some days you will feel more powerful than other days... Outcompete the average man’s best day on your worst,” the influencer tweeted.

The tweet was “liked” by thousands of users, most of them apparently male or bots.

Breaking news: Andrew Tate has lost his appeal against further detention in a Romanian prison.

A Labour MP has told of how she was inundated with rape and death threats after voicing criticism of misogynistic influencer Andrew Tate (Maya Oppenheim writes).

Alex Davies-Jones, the MP for Pontypridd in Wales, told the House of Commons she endured abuse via email but also directly to her parliamentary office after calling out Tate’s “horrendous abuse and behaviour” online.

She thanked “all of the local police in my south Wales area who have been an immense support to me in the recent weeks after I have spoken out about the horrendous abuse and behaviour of Andrew Tate online.

“As a result, my own inbox and my office have been bombarded with death threats, rape threats.”

Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have left a Bucharest court after a hearing this morning.

As the brothers left the court on Wednesday after a morning hearing, Andrew said: “Ask them for evidence and they will give you none, because it doesn’t exist. You’ll find out the truth of this case soon.”

The brothers and their two coaccused were appealing against their continued detention over claims of rape and human trafficking.

If the court rejects their appeal, all four will remain in custody until 27 February as prosecutors continue investigating the case.

The world must “remember” misogynistic influencer Andrew Tate is from the UK, a local Romanian politician has said as the country remains gripped by the influencer’s court case.

Oana Toiu, an MP who is president of the labour and social protection committee, told The Independent Tateis “exploiting” misogynistic views among young people in Romania while their “patriarchal” government is ignoring issues around young people being radicalised by misogynistic social media personalities like Tate.

Her comments were echoed by teenage campaigners in Romania who warned the world must not forget Tate is from the UK rather than Romania as they explained most of the boys in their class support Tate and “continuously” discuss him.

Read more from Maya Oppenheim here.

Andrew Tate is in for a good week, his manager has claimed.

The remarks from Mr Tate’s manager, who goes by the online name “The Sartorial Shooter”, appeared to be based on what he claimed was a lack of evidence for the rape and human trafficking allegations against his client and brother Tristan – but he did not provide any evidence to support this statement.

Speaking on the social app Discord, Mr Tate’s manager said: “This coming week is going to be the most positive week the Tate’s have had since they’ve been in detention.” He went on to claim that Mr Tate’s fanbase was becoming stronger due to his detention.

He was speaking ahead of a court date on Wednesday where lawyers will argue for the brothers’ release.

Romanian authorities arrested the brothers along with two women in December on the accounts of six women who alleged they were sexually exploited by the detained group.