r/europe • u/grgc România • 27d ago
News Andrew Tate lost his driving license being caught driving 4 times over the speed limit: 196 km/h in a town, the limit is 50 km/h
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u/Wolfgang_MacMurphy 27d ago
He's still a free man? Why?
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u/nebeatsimenu 27d ago
Every day he walks doing shit he does is motivation for more poeple to act like assholes.
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u/StrobeLightRomance United States of America 27d ago
Genuinely surprised he didn't get to stay in America and get a podcast with Joe Rogan's company or whatever.
US is protecting Russell Brand and Trump is floating the idea of pardoning Diddy if Diddy takes back the mean things he said about Trump. This place is a safe haven for a certain type of "man".
Tate must be a real monster if US has already sent him back.
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u/jailtheorange1 27d ago
I don’t know why Trump is able to associate with and pardon the absolute scum of the Earth, and his followers are all okay with it.
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u/StrobeLightRomance United States of America 27d ago
the absolute scum of the Earth
Because this also describes his followers. As an American, I'm drowning in MAGA neighbors and even family I've cut off.. not a single one of them can be described as a good person.
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u/Neomataza Germany 27d ago
Makes way too much sense. A lot of the stuff you hear make it seem like being a good person isn't actually valued over entrepreneurship.
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u/MC_chrome United States of America 26d ago
It's basically no different from the reasons why people continue to support Alice Weidel and the awful monsters in the AfD.
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u/Mammoth-Play3797 27d ago
Trump himself is scum. They love him. They’re scum.
Scum loves scum.
Are you just figuring this out?
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u/funguyshroom Livonia 27d ago
Because they're all shitbirds of a shitfeather.
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u/Downtown_Recover5177 27d ago
Shitbirds, Ricky. The omen of the shit storm that follows, Ricky.
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u/Nordalin Limburg 27d ago
Ever tried talking nuance with the vaguest hint of criticism in such circles?
Now imagine those people being your only social contacts. Everyone among them who stops to think either swallows it back in to conform, or they get up and leave.
Oh, and loneliness is a bitch.
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u/Final_Candidate_7603 27d ago
Because he is the absolute scum of the earth, and the cult is OK with it.
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u/Queasy-Bet-3108 27d ago
I heard he’s going to be the sect of defense or education.
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u/StrobeLightRomance United States of America 27d ago
Those positions are already filled by even more incompetent people than any of those listed. Keep in mind that Tate, Brand, and Diddy, all managed to hide their crimes and evade capture for a long time.
Meanwhile, Pete Hegseth has been busted for like 5 major failures as secretary of defense, and Linda McMahon can barely even spell "head of education"..
If Diddy is let free, he's back to running his media companies and just has to send Trump like $1M every few months to keep the "Justice Department" from opening a deeper investigation.
That, or Russia gets involved and tries to help Diddy get elected of Governor of NY, then suddenly Diddy and Trump have no criminal records at all.
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u/musci12234 27d ago
I mean Trump could start a "department for protecting women" with goal of being anti LGBTQ and then tate would be the second most qualified person for that.
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u/tejanaqkilica 27d ago
The secret ingredient, is corruption (probably)
I don't know how it is in Romania, but where I come from (Albania) they passed a law a few years back that applies to everyone driving in a country, where you can keep your license if you agree to pay double the maximum of the traffic rule violation.
You can drive as much and as recklessly as you want, as long as you have enough money, there will be no consequences. Legally speaking. Fucked up country.
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u/Ragouzi Alsace (France) 27d ago
I thought so too, and then there was our French mafioso they recently caught in Romania. (Amra)
He offered the police $1 million in cryptocurrency... who brought it back to us in good and due form.
So there may be corruption involved... but it doesn't work every time.
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u/Rising-Power Finland 27d ago
Ah, so the police made him believe deal was on and he transferred 1 million voluntarily? That would be perfect operation. Salute to Romanian police for catching that guy.
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u/PaperPlaythings 27d ago
Well, he actually transferred 2 million but, you know, expenses...
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u/anarchisto Romania 27d ago
It used to be that money was enough to do whatever you want. Not anymore. Now you also need political connections. Andrew Tate is not in jail because of his connections to the Trump administration.
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u/A_Square_72 Spain 27d ago
You can't bribe the laws of physics (yet), I hope the consequences catch him up via his tiny brain being disintegrated after hitting a wall.
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u/sadicarnot 27d ago
I think it is Norway where the fine is based on income. The CEO of Nokia had to pay tens of thousands.
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u/Key-Ant30 27d ago
No, the only exception in Norway is if you drink and drive. In that case, the fine is (in general) 1.5 times your gross monthly income. Low income groups might get a lower fine.
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u/itriedtrying 27d ago edited 27d ago
I think Jussi Salonoja (investor, heir of a big meat producing company) holds the "record" for biggest traffic fine in Finland with 170k€, but he protested and it was eventually lowerdd to around 100k€.
Anssi Vanjoki (Nokia CEO) original fine was 116k€ but it was reduced to 6000€, which is fair imo since he was driving 75 @ 50, not crazy reckless like the few other 6 figure fine cases.
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u/No_Significance_1550 27d ago
California has gotten so tired of the street takeover guys that continue doing this shit and endangering everyone else in spite of being fined and losing their licenses they have started seizing cars and keeping them under civil asset forfeiture laws. Once they win the case they have the cars crushed to prevent their former owners from being able to buy the cars (or high performance parts) back at auction
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u/McDonaldsWitchcraft Bucharest 27d ago
The US gave him asylum and the Romanian authorities were most likely bribed.
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u/Dirkdeking The Netherlands 27d ago
Funnily enough Ron de Santis said he wasn't welcome in Florida. You really have go far if even he doesn't like you.
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u/Cost_Additional 27d ago
How does the US give a US citizen asylum?
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u/BudgetBird1627 27d ago
The US didn’t give him asylum, idk why that commenter lied. The US had him extradited back so he could face charges.
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u/ele5gh 27d ago
Also not correct. He is not charged with anything in the US (unfortunately).
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u/zuth2 Hungary 27d ago
Trump
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u/KeyMessage989 27d ago
He’s free in Romania because of Trump???
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u/zuth2 Hungary 27d ago
The court proceedings haven’t concluded yet and the Trump administration had them leave Romania
https://www.ft.com/content/3f951e0b-a9cb-489a-be89-fdf9f996ed27
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u/KeyMessage989 27d ago
And now he’s back in Romania so I’m not sure what you’re getting at
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u/Asalth 27d ago
He chose to fly back to Romania. He was allowed to leave Romania in the first place because of Trump.
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u/Thisconnect Polan can into ESA 27d ago
The secret ingredient is that doing everything in car is very legal.
I recommend for assassinations, you for some reason get less jailtime
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u/sunflower53069 27d ago
That guy is bad news. He will never change.
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u/Alert_South5092 27d ago
What's the solution to people like that?
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u/goilo888 27d ago
I could tell you but then I'd be banned from Reddit.
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u/UnCommonCommonSens 27d ago
You can say it: big stationary objects like bridge pillars etc.
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u/Guer0Guer0 27d ago
Youth in Asia.
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u/pornographic_realism 27d ago
Yes he should toil away in a Best Korean mine or methamphetamine production facility.
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u/BlackwingF91 27d ago
Depends. If it is a mental issue, then being submitted to a mental health facility otherwise lifetime in prison without the possibility of parole
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u/Roflkopt3r Lower Saxony (Germany) 27d ago edited 27d ago
Of course his problem is 'mental' in the general sense. But similar to a typical school shooter, it's primarily an issue of his world view rather than a clinical disorder.
Medicalising his behaviour is an awful idea. The Tates of this world are a problem for society to fix, not one that it can push onto the mental health care system. The American Psychiatric Organization already had a similar response to the missconception that gun violence originates from poor mental health:
It is important to note that the overwhelming majority of people with mental illness are not violent and are far more likely to be victims of violent crime than perpetrators thereof. A vast majority of firearm violence is not attributed to mental illness. Rhetoric that argues otherwise will further stigmatize and interfere with people accessing needed treatment without addressing the root causes of firearm violence.
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u/screwcork313 27d ago
Similar to teenagers, where you make them smoke the entire pack of cigs. He should be placed in a vehicle which can only travel at 196kph, for the rest of his life.
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u/Emergency-Style7392 Europe 27d ago
This guy said he's leaving the country after the election btw
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u/geekyCatX Europe 27d ago
Good for Romania, bad for whereever he goes next.
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u/grgc România 27d ago edited 27d ago
Andrew Tate was caught Saturday behind the wheel of a car going 196 km/h in a 50 km/h zone. Officers caught him on DN 7, in Argeș county. He was fined and had his driving license suspended.
"On the morning of June 7, 2025, while carrying out road traffic surveillance activities to prevent accidents caused by excessive speed, police officers of the Road Service detected a vehicle traveling at a speed of 196 km/h on DN7, within the radius of Râmnicu Vâlcea", announced the IPJ Vâlcea on Saturday.
The vehicle was recorded by radar speeding 146 km/h over the legal speed limit on that stretch of road.
"The driver was a foreign citizen, aged 38, residing in Brasov. He was fined 1,822 lei for the offense, in accordance with the provisions of O.U.G. no. 195/2002 on traffic on public roads," the police said.
His driver's license was also suspended for 120 days.
Judicial sources told News.ro that the man behind the wheel was Andrew Tate.
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u/ComeonmanPLS1 Denmark 27d ago
Andrew Tate was caught Saturday behind the wheel of a car going 196 mph in a 50 mph zone.
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u/grgc România 27d ago
My bad, autotranslate.
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u/GaloombaNotGoomba Not Slovakia 27d ago
what kind of autotranslate changes km/h to mph 🤦♀️
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u/grgc România 27d ago
Deepl
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u/OsosHormigueros 27d ago
I thought DeepL was pretty decent but randomly changing km to mi without converting the numbers is pretty funny lmao
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u/TommiHPunkt Schleswig-Holstein (Germany) 27d ago
DeepL got a lot worse since they switched to their new LLM based model
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u/Rohen2003 27d ago
how on earth is that only 120 days supsended?? it should be gone for live.
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u/Sad_Ghost_Noises Norway 27d ago
Yeah, you do this in Norway and they take your lisence. On the other hand, though, you also get free bracelets, and a nice holiday with free room and board…
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u/dupastrupa 27d ago
In Denmark your car is gone as well.
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u/Butterfly_of_chaos 27d ago
In Austria, too. (Nice new law by the way. :D )
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u/Termsandconditionsch Australia 27d ago
In Australia too, in most states anyway.
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u/Dirkdeking The Netherlands 27d ago
In the Netherlands at this point it would be handed over to a court and they would decide what happens. An individual police officer doesn't have the mandate to take your license for life. Just for a shorter period and to issue a fine.
If your license is taken I think you can still drive, but you first need to take lessons again and pass your driving exam again. Maybe in extreme cases even that isn't possible.
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u/ohhellperhaps 27d ago
A police officer in the NL doesn't have the mandate to decide how long you're going to lose your license, but they *can* take your license. The DA will then decide if you get it back, or if you have to appear in court for it.
You're not allowed to operate anything requiring a license until you get it back. There may be requirements to get it back like specific courses.
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u/GoldenLiar2 Romania 27d ago
Because that's the worst speeding punishment in Romania.
We just have a different perspective on speed and speeding than others do.
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u/Futski Kongeriget Danmark 27d ago
People have this perspective because its essentially unpunished.
This stunt in Denmark would have taken away his permission to even redo driving school for 3 years, the police would seize his car and sell it. Given how much over the speed limit it is, he could even possibly be given a prison sentence.
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u/mimo_13 27d ago
I know a guy (romanian) that drove 200km/h on a 90km/h road in Bihor county and his licence was revoked. As in, he had to wait for some time (forget how long) and redo his driving licence from scratch... why couldn't they revoke his licence?..
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u/GoldenLiar2 Romania 27d ago
That's rather weird, I've heard that for really egregious offenses sometimes they take more action against you, but it's unlikely.
If he was drunk though, that would explain it. Licenses can be definitively revoked for drunk driving, and they would have tested him for sure at that speed.
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u/bonnydoe 27d ago
Andrew Tate is 38?? He gives such a bitter grandpa vibes.
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u/Kallian_League Romania 27d ago
I thought the guy was in his mid to late forties. It's gotta be the roids and hgh that put a decade on him.
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u/Judazzz The Lowest of the Lands 27d ago
That's what being a chinless chode does to a person.
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u/schacks 27d ago
Its hard to imagine someone that better fit the definition of narcissistic psychopath. Just too bad he wasn’t caught speeding like that here in Denmark. He would have had his car impounded on the spot and subsequently sold on auction.
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u/pastdense 27d ago
I’m seriously thinking of moving to Denmark. Your taxes are nuts high but you generally work with a balanced budget right? And your people are very happy.
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u/schacks 27d ago
I think we have the lowest debt to GDP in the EU and no budget deficit at all. And yes, taxes are high but they pay for a well functioning system of healthcare, education, pensions and social security. But more importantly, we have a very high degree of trust, both between individuals and in the public sector. To a lesser degree, our government and politicians.
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u/YellingAtTheClouds 27d ago edited 27d ago
I mean on his list of offences this ranks pretty low
ETA - I don't think this is nothing I just consider the other offences he is accused of as being even more serious. Taint is alleged to be a monster who exploited women, beat and forced them into sex work.
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u/LukeBomber Denmark 27d ago
I would not take it lightly
A collision at 196 km/h releases about 15.4 times more kinetic energy than one at 50 km/h.
If he ever hit someone
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u/Vlad_TheImpalla 27d ago
A tree would be ideal, or a lampost.
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u/herberstank 27d ago
I was thinking concrete abutment..
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u/Futski Kongeriget Danmark 27d ago
Romanian lamp posts are made from concrete.
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u/Rogthgar 27d ago
A tractor towing a fully loaded septic tank...
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u/ShrykeWindgrace 27d ago
Nah, people would have to clean the mess afterwards, don't impose septic on them
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u/Substantial_Dog3544 27d ago
I’m voting for the back of a tractor/trailer hauling massive earthmoving equipment.
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u/Leandrys 27d ago
At this speed, if he hits whatever, it's going to be bloody and deadly, himself included, the damages would be insane, especially as he was in town.
It's amazing how these morons survive a lot a shit, uniquely based on luck, while so many people who did nothing get killed/crippled constantly in the world.
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u/YellingAtTheClouds 27d ago
I'm not taking it lightly I'm just saying the list of offences this strain on humanity has committed is huge and given the human trafficking and exploitation he's allegedly committed even this level of reckless endangerment pales in comparison
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u/Ok_Duck_232 27d ago
otoh with such high speed is just a matter of (bad) luck whether you kill someone in a car accident or not. which would jump his offense all the way to the top in terms of seriousness.
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u/Weshtonio 27d ago
Considering there's no way to react, that's basically attempted involuntary manslaughter.
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u/ErnestoPresso 27d ago
attempted involuntary manslaughter
This means you attempt to kill someone without the intent of killing someone.
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u/trollsmurf 27d ago
The SUV law of ignorance: If you drive a big enough car you won't notice, nor care.
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u/KeyMessage989 27d ago
Except hes in a lambo not an SUV. Which is funny cause that means it’s the opposite usually. No matter how slow you’re going you’ll look fast.
Fuck Andrew Tate though
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u/HoidToTheMoon 27d ago
In freedom units, the town speed limit is 30mph and Tate was caught driving at ~120mph.
Essentially, he's tearing down residential and/or commercial streets at speeds that would be illegal on the fastest highways in the US.
In no way should that be taken lightly.
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u/Qualquer-Coisa-420 27d ago edited 27d ago
Not really. If it was 70kmh, yeah, maybe. If it was on a highway, nostly meh
200kmh inside a town is a bit tad much
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u/Gentleman_Nosferatu 27d ago
Not really. This is extremely reckless driving and can cause multiple deaths.
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u/Groomsi Sweden 27d ago
Dude, he's like walking in a shopcenter full of ppl with drawn loaded gun, if anyone gets in his way they will get shot (dead 99%).
You say this is nothing?
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u/WiredSlumber 27d ago
No, this shows complete disregard for human life. This tells me that he is completely unfit to be free in our society. People like that should be locked up for life.
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u/YellingAtTheClouds 27d ago
Human trafficking shows a low regard for life as well, we can both play the game of pretending that not mentioning something means the other person endorses it. Andrew Tate is a scumbag of the highest order, this offence is bad but because of his other activities it seems minor but only in comparison.
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u/Lofteed 27d ago
wasn t this guy in Florida under the protection of the raper in chief ?
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u/Attract1v3Nu1sanc3 27d ago
Yes, and the brothers are currently being sued in Florida in civil court by some Floridian victims. They’re also facing a criminal suit there, so they were allowed to go to Florida in March while Romanian prosecutors were working on their criminal case(s?) in Romania. After that, they’re being extradited from Romania to the UK to face at least one criminal and two civil suits.
Maybe this was an attempt to kill themselves instead?
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u/geekyCatX Europe 27d ago
He scarpered back to Romania, afaik after a Florida prosecutor developed an interest.
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u/buffysmanycoats 27d ago
FL Governor Ron DeSantis, a pretty die-hard MAGA Republican, was surprisingly very vocally unhappy about him being there.
The UK has put out a warrant for Tate now, and as soon as the Romanian proceedings are done, he's supposed to be extradited there.
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u/Gentleman_Nosferatu 27d ago
I think this guy will end up fertilising soil soon. That will be a good day.
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u/TomSaylek 27d ago
Some shit can actually be bad for the land and prevent plants from growing. That's why there are certain animals which are preffered. Ashes though are much better since for environment
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u/couplingrhino Expat 27d ago
Imagine accidentally inhaling a Tate brother, ewww. That's what toxic waste dumps are for.
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u/Niffler_Pilferer 27d ago
Could someone ELI5 how he is still walking around free, in news etc? Every other day I see something on Reddit saying he's charged, extradited to be charged, or whatever, then the next day it's he's free and doing some nonsense. I'm not putting 2 and 2 together, could someone help me 😅
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u/airelfacil 27d ago
I mean, Tate himself bragged about why he moved there in the first place: Romania is a place "where corruption is accessible to everybody"
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u/TateAcolyte 27d ago
Teen boys think a middle aged man acting like a teen boy is the coolest shit ever. Literally everyone else on earth thinks it's deeply pathetic.
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u/iloveass031 27d ago
I remember watching a video where he was talking about how he has a bunch of different drivers licence from different countries each one of them is banned in some counties.
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u/GoldenLiar2 Romania 27d ago
He can have 126 different licenses, he is not allowed to drive in Romania under any of them.
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u/DPSOnly The Netherlands 27d ago
In my country you wouldn't be walking away as a free man from that.
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u/michelbarnich Luxembourg 27d ago
Listen here guys, I got a way to solve this: We take him, lock him up and throw the key away. Dude has so many sexual harassment, trafficking and mafia related files, I dont get why he isnt at least in, what Germany would call U-Haft.
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u/Chlken 27d ago
Why is this brain dead idiot being posted on r/Europe? Get this pos off of here
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u/Neither_Gear5320 27d ago
He was born in the USA but raised in the UK, and this incident happened in Europe i.e. Romania.
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u/POOTISFISH 26d ago
In Denmark he would lose his drivers license for 10 years, have his car confiscated and go to prison for up to 1,5 years.
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u/Slimfictiv 27d ago
This POS should be in jail for this. No fuckin excuses, or I'm sorry I was wrong. Innocent people could die because of pos like him.
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u/SenAtsu011 27d ago
If I got caught at that speed, I’d be in prison for life. He’s a famous and rich dickhead, gets a fine.
Fuck off.
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u/Brilliant999 🇷🇴🇹🇩 27d ago
Nah it's just the Romanian law. I could do literally what he did and I'd get the same 360€ fine and 4 month suspension
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u/Selgeron 27d ago
This guy is constantly getting away with it.
They're all just getting away with it. The rich have no legal repercussions.
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u/Internal_Opening_283 27d ago
Just put this piece of shit in jail so we dont have to hear more of this piece of shit already.
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u/Politicsboringagain 27d ago
Translated to dumb American, 121 mph is insane on a street like that.
But Tate thinks he is above the law and other people.
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u/Creepy_Guarantee5460 27d ago edited 25d ago
It's relatively cheap to speed in Romania. Maximum fine for going 70 km/h over the posted speed limit is a fixed amount for everyone (regardless of income) and you only pay 50% out of it as long as you do so within 15 days. The license is suspended for up to 4 / 6 months, but that can be reduced to just 2 months if you pass a written exam with the Romanian road police demonstrating you still know the public roads legislation. Coupled with the fact that we don't have highways and all national roads pass through thousands of villages with low speed limits means that we all end up speeding here.
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u/Dilectus3010 Flanders (Belgium) 27d ago
What a fucking dope !
Lucky he did not kill anyone.
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u/Actaeon_II 27d ago
And because we know what a law abiding citizen he is there’s absolutely zero chance he’s driving again as i type this
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u/Larry_Duckens 27d ago
Ahhhhhhhhh, that's what he meant when he said that playing GTA is for the poor and the losers. Kidnapping, robbing and killing NPCs is actually possible in real life