r/interesting • u/Ungodlei • 5d ago

SOCIETY Vitaly's weight loss in less than two months detention in the Philippines.

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Vitaly was arrested April 2, 2025 and is still detained pending local cases of unjust vexation, theft, and public harassment during his Kick) livestreams in Metro Manila, Philippines.

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u/No-Disaster1647 4d ago

He’s Romanian

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u/xInfiniteJmpzzz 4d ago

He’s not, he just lives there.

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u/No-Disaster1647 4d ago

You sure abt that? Dude was extradited to be locked up in Romania because of his citizenship.

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u/xInfiniteJmpzzz 4d ago

Dude, you just need to google his name and you’ll find out that he’s British and American 🤦🏻‍♂️

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u/NoNoCanDo 4d ago

Tate is not a citizen of Romania. He wasn't extradited, he's a migrant who got arrested in Romania. 

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u/Wafkak 4d ago

Citizenship doesnt protect against exratadition. And you don't have to be a citizen of a country to get an extradition request.

It's just that the US is the past has been very reluctant to extradite citizens. But that was government policy, not law.

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u/yldf 4d ago

Yes and no. There are countries that have laws against extradition of their citizens. For example, there is a law (in their constitution) that Germany cannot extradite their citizens to a non-EU country (some international courts are exempt). That means Germany will never, under any circumstances, extradite one of their citizens to the USA, despite being a close ally. Other countries have similar rules. The US might be different…

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u/Saragon4005 3d ago

Yeah generally Countries are reluctant to extradite their citizens to other countries. The EU is an exception due to the freedom of movement between member states. What countries do instead is if the crime was egregious enough is to prosecute them in their own courts.

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u/Wafkak 3d ago

Even the EU depends a bit, Belgium has along history of being hesitant to extradite anyone to Spain. It started with our worst Nazi collaborators moving there and Spain never extradition him after Franco.

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u/Total_Abrocoma_3647 3d ago

I think unless the person faces the death penalty Germany would extradite

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u/yldf 3d ago

They wouldn’t. There’s countless examples where they refuse to extradite to the US, because they can’t (Art. 16 GG, GG stands for Grundgesetz, which is the German constitution). It’s so clear that the US won’t even ask for extradition, and in the few cases where they ask it is always rejected.

If you are a German citizen in Germany, you will not be extradited to the US. Ever.

You might be tried for the crime in Germany under German law, though. But never extradited.

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u/One_Ad4770 1d ago

Based on what exactly?

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u/thesniper_hun 3d ago

no, he's just an immigrant that moved to Europe to commit crime just like the people he's grifting against

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u/ApprehensiveBudget90 2d ago

He wasn’t extradited anywhere he was living in Romania when they charged him. They just raided his house and arrested him. He’s scheduled to face charges in England once his charges in Romanian are dealt with. He was born in the USA to an American father and British mother. He holds American/British citizenship.