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2 Women who Romanian Police believe to be victims of Andrew Tate have publicly came out and said ‘they are not victims, we are friends’
The ladies worked at the Bucharest complex where Andrew Tate resided with his brother and the models who worked for his adult webcam company. The women's tattoos read "Property of Tate" and "Tate Girl."
One of the ladies, identified as Beatrice, claimed to have been "close friends" with the Tate brothers for two years and got "Tate Girl" tattooed on her arm "out of respect for them" in an interview with Romania's Antena 1 TV station.
Jasmin, the second woman, claimed she had never witnessed Tristan or Mr. Tate acting "aggressively or rudely."
Never was I ever in danger, Beatrice claimed. "If I were, I wouldn't be so foolish as to remain in that house.
If I'm not a victim, you can't refer to me as one in the case file, Beatrice described how 20 police officers barged into the property in December and went upstairs to a bedroom where, according to Beatrice, two other women had barricaded themselves in anticipation of the raid.
"They broke the door. The women screamed "said Beatrice.
However, the officers were unaware that the bedroom key was on the bed.
The evidence that investigators have so far acquired is not quite clear. Claims, counterclaims, and conspiracy theories coexist among the Tates' former colleagues.
No charges have yet been brought, but Mihaela Dragus, a spokeswoman for Romania's National Anti-Trafficking Agency, says the case is already sending a strong message to both traffickers and victims.
Andrew Tate's head of security has given a dismissive account of the women who surrounded the controversial influencer, in spite of a police investigation into claims of sexual assault and exploitation against him. Tate denies all the allegations.
In an exclusive broadcast interview with the BBC, Bogdan Stancu said more than 100 women had passed through Mr Tate's compound in Bucharest, since he began work there two years ago.
The former police intelligence officer said he was sometimes asked to physically remove women from the Tate house for being "too drunk" or "making problems", but that no force was ever used.