Andrew Tate, the “toxic” influenceras he likes to call himself “Top G” (in street slang the G stands for gangster), posted on X that he prays to die like former Hamas leader Yahya Shinuwar. “I can only pray for a death as heroic as Sinuar’s”the “toxic” influencer wrote. “Brave, defiant in the face of evil and devoted to his life’s purpose. He deserves eternal rest. He won her.”

A mistake by Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar ultimately cost him his life, according to the Wall Street Journal, citing Americans, Arabs and Hamas officials. As they point out, Sinwar rejected a proposal to allow Egypt to negotiate a cease-fire and hostage exchange deal on behalf of Hamas, and to flee the Gaza Strip himself.

Andrew Tate is a social media phenomenon. He claims to have mastered social media algorithms and his posts are like a cyber plague.

His career didn’t start on the internet. He was a successful kickboxer. In 2009, it was the first in its category in Europe. Experts spoke of his “multi-layered techniques” and “sharp punches to the body”. But by 2016, Andrew Tate had left the ring and entered another arena: television, and specifically a well-known reality show.

He seemed a born provocateur: “I don’t care if nobody likes me”he told the other contestants. “I know I’m the smartest person in the house. Fact!”. A few days later, Tate was ejected from the game after footage emerged showing him beating an ex-girlfriend with a belt (although both Tate and the woman deny the abuse and say the video showed consensual sex). It has since emerged that Hertfordshire Police have made inquiries about him over allegations of rape. In 2019, the Prosecutor’s Office decided not to continue the investigation and the file was closed.

Tate was arrested in late December in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, along with his brother Tristan and two Romanian women. He was arrested on charges of human trafficking and organized crime. Officers raided his hideout and say they found guns, knives and large sums of cash. “Top G” and his younger brother Tristan, 34, were led into jail in handcuffs.

Andrew Tate, after months in a Romanian prison on suspicion of organized crime and human trafficking, was released, but his “digital army” never stopped following him. Since the start of the war, Tate has appeared in numerous interviews where he has hurled accusations against Israel, speaking of genocide against the Palestinians. In July, Tate claimed to X that Israel tried to buy him out.

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Born in the US, his parents immigrated to the UK when he was about five years old. His father, Emory, was a pioneering African-American chess champion who died suddenly during a tournament in 2015. His mother worked as a caterer in Luton and is now said to be in Kentucky, where she lives with his sister Tate. a lawyer.

Tate likes to pose with a cigar in front of expensive cars and private jets and often dispenses controversial advice to young men (he once claimed that reading books is “for people with slow minds”). But it is his extreme misogyny that has made him famous. He has said that women are partly responsible for rape and that they “belong” to men.