Oslo — Norwegian police mentioned Tuesday that the 27-year-old son of Norwegian Crown Princess Mette-Marit had been arrested on suspicion of rape. Police mentioned Marius Borg Hoiby, who was born from a relationship previous to Mette-Marit’s 2001 marriage to Crown Prince Haakon, was arrested Monday night.
“What police can say in regards to the rape is that it considerations a sexual act with out intercourse. The sufferer is claimed to have been unable to withstand the act,” they mentioned.
In a later assertion, police mentioned that they had searched the suspect’s house and made “seizures.”
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Borg Hoiby was raised by the royal couple alongside his step-siblings Princess Ingrid Alexandra, 20, and Prince Sverre Magnus, 18, however has no official public function.
The rape arrest comes solely months after he was accused of bodily hurt after a night-time row on August 4 on the Oslo condo of a girl he was having a relationship with, police mentioned. Norwegian media experiences mentioned police discovered a knife caught into one of many partitions of the girl’s bed room on the time.
He was arrested once more in September for violating a restraining order.
Police mentioned he was in a automobile with the alleged sufferer of the August incident when he was arrested Monday.
On Tuesday, police additionally mentioned the suspicions regarding the August incident now embrace home abuse.
Police mentioned that they had but to determine whether or not he could be remanded in custody.