We could have a fair, independent process, as justice demands \u2013 or buckle under pressure from the US. Frankly, it could go either way<\/p>\n
A turquoise Koenigsegg Jesko<\/a>, the world\u2019s fastest car and worth about \u00a32.3m, zipped through central Bucharest at nearly 100mph on Monday 24 March. At the wheel, the self-proclaimed \u201cmisogynist\u201d influencer Andrew Tate, exuding an air of invincibility as he sped past the imposing Palace of the Parliament.<\/p>\n To the surprise of many Romanians \u2013 and to their horror, frankly <\/strong>\u2013 <\/strong>Andrew and his brother, Tristan, collectively known as the Tate brothers, had returned to Romania<\/a> from the US as part of their legal obligations in the investigation against them on serious charges of rape, money laundering and human trafficking. The two also face separate charges of rape and human trafficking in the UK<\/a>. The two men deny any wrongdoing. Their return made front pages around the world \u2013 but this is so much more than a big news story for people here. It is a true test of our political and judicial system at a tense time in our history. <\/strong>Will officials bow down to pressure from the new US administration? What will their handling of the case say about the country we are now?<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We could have a fair, independent process, as justice demands \u2013 or buckle under pressure from the US. Frankly, it could go either way A turquoise Koenigsegg Jesko, the world\u2019s fastest car and worth about \u00a32.3m, zipped through central Bucharest at nearly 100mph on Monday 24 March. At the wheel, the self-proclaimed \u201cmisogynist\u201d influencer Andrew … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}