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   hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 30-Dec-2022 19:55:57 JST hypolite
   ♲ @bendreyfuss@twitter.com:I'm sorry to say that Andrew Tate was not arrested because of his stupid Greta Thunberg video calmdownben.com/p/romanian-cop…
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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Saturday, 31-Dec-2022 05:52:33 JST hypolite

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     @grin The article provides several earlier posts by Tate explicitly saying he was in Romania. The pizza box could have played a role but it’s unlikely, the police raid probably had been already planned by the time Tate posted his rebuttal video.
     
     I like the pizza box myth, but I don’t think self-professed journalists should engage with it without scrutiny.
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     grin (grin@mastodon.grin.hu)'s status on Saturday, 31-Dec-2022 05:52:35 JST grin

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     @hypolite "Sources close to the investigation told Gândul that shortly after the computer forensics were completed, the authorities waited for the right moment to catch the Tate brothers, who were away from the country most of the time.

     After seeing, including on social media, that they were together in Romania, DIICOT prosecutors mobilised special gendarmerie troops and raided their villa in Pipera and other addresses."

     This suggests that social media content was used, pizza or else.

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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jan-2023 10:51:12 JST hypolite

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     @grin Yes but nobody contests this. The specific claim that is discussed is wether this particular post led to his arrest, and it hasn’t been established, so I believe it is unlikely.
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     grin (grin@mastodon.grin.hu)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jan-2023 10:51:13 JST grin

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     @hypolite The Romanian articles contained that they did know the address but did not know when the suspects are there, and the articles claimed that the social media posts were the leads, pizza box or else.