A ‘GRETA’ Brought Down Andrew Tate For Trafficking. It’s Not Who You Think

Andrew Tate was detained by Romanian authorities on Thursday.

As information of controversial media character Andrew Tate’s arrest and Twitter spat with Swedish local weather change activist Greta Thunberg made headlines, web customers have been fast to level out that it was in the end GRETA that introduced the far-right movie star to the Romanian authorities’ radar.

GRETA, which stands for the Group of Consultants on Motion towards Trafficking in Human Beings, is a European physique that screens the implementation of the Council of Europe Conference on Motion towards Trafficking in Human Beings by the Events.

This 15-member physique is at the moment within the highlight for Andrew Tate’s detention, after a yr outdated press launch by the group has gone viral. Civil rights lawyer and Twitter consumer Alejandra Caraballo posted a tweet of a screenshot of the Council of Europe web site. The screenshot referred to a press launch dated June 3, 2021 wherein GRETA (the council, not the activist) urged Romania to make sure that human trafficking offences result in efficient sanctions.

You may’t make this up. Romanian authorities have been urged final yr to successfully prosecute human traffickers by GRETA, the Group of Consultants Towards Trafficking Human Beings. pic.twitter.com/rPsX2PD244

— Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_) December 29, 2022

Now, a yr and half later, Romanian authorities are within the limelight for detaining 4 folks on suspicion of human trafficking, one in all which was Andrew Tate.

The irony of a company named GRETA bringing down Andrew Tate was not misplaced on netizens, who responded to Caraballo’s tweet with memes and laughter. As Twitter consumer viralsmile remarked, “The writers actually did an awesome job with this 2022 finale”.

The writers actually did an awesome job with this 2022 finale

— Legislation (@viralsmile) December 29, 2022