The news shakes the whole kingdom. Norwegian police announced Tuesday the arrest of the son of Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway on suspicion of rape.
Born from a relationship prior to his mother’s marriage in 2001 to Haakon, the heir to the Norwegian throne, Marius Borg Hoiby, 27, was arrested Monday evening. He is suspected of having had “sexual intercourse with a person who was unconscious or otherwise incapable of resisting the act,” police said.
“What the police can say about this rape is that it was a non-penetrative sexual act. The victim was reportedly unable to resist the act,” police said.
Arrested for the first time in August
Borg Hoiby was arrested on August 4 following a nighttime argument in a woman’s apartment in Oslo and accused of causing bodily harm to the resident, with whom he was in a relationship.
Norwegian media reported that police found a knife stuck in one of the walls of the woman’s bedroom at the time.
He was then arrested again in September for violating a protection order.
Police say when he was arrested Monday, he was in a car with the alleged victim from the August incident.
No official public role
On Tuesday, police also said suspicions relating to the first incident now included domestic violence.
No decision has yet been taken, according to the police, concerning a possible placement in pre-trial detention.
Hoiby and his half-siblings – 20-year-old Princess Ingrid Alexandra and 18-year-old Prince Sverre Magnus – were raised together by Mette-Marit and Haakon. Unlike them, he has no official public role.
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