‘Police Raid MAGA “King of Toxic Masculinity” in Human-Trafficking Investigation’, reported the Daily Beast on April 27, 2022. “The raid was prompted by reports that an American woman had been abducted.” A Romanian news website released a video, filmed through the gaps in the gate to Andrew Tate’s compound on the outskirts of Bucharest, in which heavily armed police officers in balaclavas paced up and down in front of a collection of supercars.
We had first met Tate in London in 2021, when he had agreed to take part in a documentary. When we saw the news of the raid, Jamie immediately messaged Tate, asking him what was going on. Fifteen minutes later, he replied, “Pure lies.
Nothing happened,” before sending a series of voice notes in which he claimed the police were searching for a missing girl in the area and had searched his house along with “four other houses on the street”, before taking him and his brother Tristan to the police station and releasing them an hour later without arrest..