19 November 2024 , 17:42
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Marius Borg Holby, detained in August after an incident at a woman’s apartment in Oslo, was arrested on Monday evening
The 27-year-old son of the Norwegian crown princess, Mette-Marit, has been arrested on suspicion of rape, according to police.
Police said in a statement that Marius Borg Høiby, who was born from a relationship prior to Mette-Marit’s 2001 marriage to Crown Prince Haakon, the heir apparent to the Norwegian throne, was arrested on Monday evening.
He was suspected of violating the criminal code “which concerns sexual intercourse with someone who is unconscious or for other reasons unable to resist the act”, the statement said.
“What police can say about the rape is that it concerns a sexual act without intercourse. The victim is said to have been unable to resist the act,” police said.
Borg Høiby was detained on 4 August after a night-time incident at a woman’s apartment in Oslo and accused of causing bodily harm to the resident, with whom he was having a relationship, police said.
Norwegian media reports said police found a knife stuck into one of the walls of the woman’s bedroom at the time. He was arrested again in September for allegedly violating a restraining order.
According to police, when he was arrested on Monday, Borg Høiby was in a car with the alleged victim from the August incident.
Police also said the suspicions relating to the August incident included domestic abuse. They said they had yet to decide whether he would be remanded in custody.
Borg Høiby and his half-siblings – Princess Ingrid Alexandra, 20, and Prince Sverre Magnus, 18 – were raised together by Mette-Marit and Haakon. Unlike them, he has no official public role.