The eldest son of Norway’s crown princess has been arrested on suspicion of rape, police have mentioned.
Marius Borg Hoiby is the son of Princess Mette-Marit from a earlier relationship and the stepson of the inheritor to the Norwegian throne, Crown Prince Haakon.
Borg Hoiby was arrested in Oslo late on Monday on a preliminary cost of getting “sexual intercourse with someone who is unconscious or for other reasons unable to resist the act”.
The 27-year-old has no royal title or official duties. He denied the allegation, based on native media.
Preliminary fees come earlier than formal ones and permit police to detain a suspect throughout an investigation.
Police didn’t say when the alleged rape occurred, solely that “the victim must have been unable to resist the act”.
The cost was introduced by the police, not the girl who was allegedly raped, based on her lawyer, Hege Salomon.
Ms Salomon additionally advised Norwegian broadcaster NRK her shopper “is having a hard time”.
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Norway’s Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit in June. File pic: NTB/Silje Katrine Robinson/Reuters
It’s the second time in three months that Borg Hoiby has been arrested as he was briefly detained by police on 4 August following a disturbance in central Oslo, Norway’s capital.
He confronted preliminary fees of bodily hurt and legal injury and was launched.
Particulars are unclear however police mentioned there was “a relationship between the suspect and the victim”.
Extra preliminary fees have since been filed towards Borg Hoiby, together with violating a number of restraining orders and driving with no legitimate driver’s licence.
In all, the instances contain 4 girls and one man.
