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30th December 2022
10:58am GMT

Tate was handed some 'non-recyclable' pizza boxes from a local chain during his video response to Greta Thunberg (Twitter)[/caption]
Within 24 hours of the video being posted, Tate was arrested along with his brother.
Unconfirmed reports have claimed that authorities were able to confirm his whereabouts thanks to the pizza boxes that appeared in the video response.
In a tweet following the news of Tate's arrest, Thunberg simply said: “This is what happens when you don’t recycle your pizza boxes.”
https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1608735970131849217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1608735970131849217%7Ctwgr%5E7c11f5f1d17796aecba2ed2f65e557a9dd243ac8%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fd-2748287629872952593.ampproject.net%2F2211302304002%2Fframe.html
At the time of writing, the Tweet has racked up almost 800,000 likes in less than three hours.
Tate has been detained on suspicion of human trafficking, rape and forming an organised crime group, prosecutors said on Thursday (29 December) according to Reuters.
Prosecutors also said that they have found six women who claim to have been sexually exploited by the suspects.
Romania's Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) issued a statement but did not name the Tate brothers.
It confirmed that two British citizens and two Romanian citizens were suspected of being part of a criminal group focused on human trafficking.
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