EXCLUSIVE | Andrew and Tristan Tate asked for Playstation and hairstylist in custody. How the cops reacted
Brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate asked the management of the Capital Police Detention and Preventive Arrest Centre (CRAP) to bring a games console to their room. At the same time, the British millionaires also asked for a hairdresser, as they reportedly said they could not use the personal hygiene items allowed in detention.
Andrew and Tristan Tate have been in custody since 29 December 2022, after DIICOT prosecutors raided their villa in Pipera and the videochat studio opened nearby. Police sources revealed to Gândul that shortly after their incarceration, the British millionaires may have managed to make their lives easier. In this respect, in the evenings, when changing shifts, they would get shaorma or steak cooked at fancy restaurants in the north of the capital.
In addition, because the authorities seemed sympathetic to them, they would ask to buy a Playstation games console so they could play on the TV, especially as they were in the same cell.
On 2 February, before entering the DIICOT headquarters, where he and his brother were due to take part in the computer search, Tristan Tate gave journalists two handwritten notes.
"The DIICOT evidence against us is that our friends Beatrice and Jasmina made videos on TikTok in 2021. That's why they are in jail. Ask DIICOT for the evidence. Ask the judges who's influencing them. Tell the world what's going on," Tristan wrote on one of the two notes.
After the incident, the British detention regime changed radically and they began to receive specific treatment for detainees deemed dangerous. As a result, they were no longer able to get steak cooked in fancy restaurants or other perks.
In addition, the Playstation application had not yet been approved. The sources quoted said that when Andrew Tate asked where his console was, he was told that "prisoners don't play games, they pray".
Tate brothers buy fruit and sweets
However, the Tate brothers didn't give up and would be back with a new request. This time they complained that they could not use the disposable razors allowed in detention and asked to be allowed to bring in a hairdresser from outside the detention unit. This request was also refused.
They do, however, benefit from the purchases made, by law, by Central Detention representatives, who market to inmates who have money in accounts opened in their names at the Detention and Remand Centre. According to the sources cited, the Tate brothers generally buy fruit and sweets as well as personal hygiene items such as toilet paper and soap.
Andrew and Tristan Tate were detained on 29 December 2022 and remanded in custody a day later, at the request of DIICOT prosecutors, who accuse them of "setting up an organised criminal group during 2021 with a view to committing the crime of human trafficking on the territory of Romania and other countries, such as the United States and the United Kingdom".
"The victims were then transported and sheltered in buildings in Ilfov county where, through acts of physical violence and psychological coercion (through intimidation, constant surveillance, control and the allegation of alleged debts), were sexually exploited by members of the group by being forced to engage in pornographic acts with a view to producing and disseminating material of such a nature via social media platforms and by being forced to perform forced labour in order to obtain significant financial benefits consisting of sums of money obtained as a result of users accessing the material", according to the DIICOT.