Eldest son of Norway’s crown princess arrested over ‘rape’

The eldest son of Norway’s crown princess has been arrested on suspicion of rape, police enjoy stated.

Marius Borg Hoiby is the son of Princess Mette-Marit from a previous relationship and the stepson of the heir to the Norwegian throne, Crown Prince Haakon.

Borg Hoiby used to be arrested in Oslo unhurried on Monday on a preliminary fee of having “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 tasks. He denied the allegation, in accordance to local media.

Preliminary costs near before formal ones and enable police to detain a suspect within the path of an investigation.

Police did now not speak when the alleged rape came about, easiest that “the victim must have been unable to resist the act”.

The fee used to be brought by the police, now not the girl who used to be allegedly raped, in accordance to her prison professional, Hege Salomon.

Ms Salomon additionally advised Norwegian broadcaster NRK her client “is having a hard time”.

It’s miles the 2nd time in three months that Borg Hoiby has been arrested as he used to be in transient detained by police on 4 August following a disturbance in central Oslo, Norway’s capital.

He faced preliminary costs of bodily harm and prison harm and used to be launched.

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Critical system are unclear however police stated there used to be “a relationship between the suspect and the victim”.

More preliminary costs enjoy since been filed against Borg Hoiby, in conjunction with violating a number of restraining orders and driving with out a sound driver’s licence.

In all, the circumstances own four girls and one man.