Detained social media persona Andrew Tate performs an “Andrew Tate character” who says issues for “leisure” and isn’t desiring to be taken severely, his lawyer says.
Tina Glandian referred to as her shopper a “free speech martyr” and mentioned there is no such thing as a proof of the allegations over which he’s being investigated in Romania.
A Romanian court docket has upheld a 3rd 30-day detention for the previous Large Brother contestant, who’s being held on suspicion of organized crime and human trafficking.
Tate misplaced his enchantment on Monday in opposition to a choose’s determination on February 21 to increase his arrest a 3rd time for 30 days, based on a spokesperson for Romania’s anti-organized crime company DIICOT.
The previous kickboxer, 36, a twin UK-US citizen identified for his misogynistic views and who has 5.2 million Twitter followers, arrived on the Bucharest court docket of enchantment handcuffed to his brother Tristan, who’s being held in the identical case.
Requested on Occasions Radio on Wednesday if her shopper performs an “Andrew Tate character”, Ms Glandian mentioned: “Sure and it is not even simply in my opinion – there is definitely interviews I’ve seen the place Andrew himself has mentioned: ‘You understand I say quite a lot of issues, it is satire’.
“I’ve heard quite a lot of foolish issues, I’ve heard him speak about whether or not eggs are actual or the truth that he is existed for 5000 years as a result of you already know there is a ninja warrior inside him.
“There’s a number of issues I believe he says as leisure. It is his public persona and people issues will not be all meant to be taken severely.”
On the allegations he faces in Romania, Ms Glandian added: “There is no such thing as a proof within the file of human trafficking.
“There is no proof of drive or coercion, or pressured transport, or pressured labour, or any kind of deprivation of girls’s liberty, which is on the coronary heart of any kind of human trafficking cost.
“They’ve been investigated for a really very long time they usually haven’t been charged.”
Glandian mentioned the Tate brothers have “public personas” by which they are saying issues their audiences wish to hear.
“That is not proof of crime, that is not who they’re as personal individuals and that is not what needs to be thought of proof in a court docket of regulation,” she added.
Requested about Andrew Tate’s remark that girls bear duty for rape, Glandian insisted that quite a lot of what he has mentioned has been “taken out of context”.
She mentioned her shopper has talked about “selling loving consensual relationships with girls”.
The US lawyer, a companion at Geragos & Geragos, additionally mentioned she was not attempting to recast Tate as a feminist however that her shopper’s controversial feedback will not be proof in a prison investigation.
“We do not prosecute rap artists as a result of they are saying issues about… prison exercise,” she added.
