I think he is released on house arrest because he has been charged and is on trial looks like? Isn't the Romanian law that they can hold someone on arrest until they file charges or something like that? Phil's talking as if Tate has been exonerated and vindicated!
It's unclear what the norm actually is.
I was drawing some parallels from the French system earlier, since it is also a civil law system.
But the details of procedure are different and so things like what is the normal pattern of arrest and incarceration while investigating and so on is difficult to figure out.
Especially since Tate and his fanbois are big on the disinformation and spin.
They also have a tendency to act as if things in a civil law system not working the same way as things in a common law system are proof that the case is weak.
(Like the whole thing about charges and about seeing the evidence.)
The other thing to keep in mind is that the decisions about house arrest and so on aren't going to be made on the strength of the evidence.
They are going to be made on the needs of the case and the rights of the accused and so on.
Locking someone up so they can't interfere with the investigation or flee the jurisdiction is one thing.
If the investigation is done then that factor changes.
If the flight risk is considered to be different now, then that changes.
(Are extradition rules different now that he has been charged? I don't know!)
So it's all a bit difficult to parse, because what we really need is someone who knows criminal procedure in Romania to explain what is normal and what isn't.