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The eldest son of Norway’s crown princess has appeared in courtroom after being arrested on suspicion of rape.
Marius Borg Hoiby, 27, challenged a police request to place him in preventive detention whereas they examine the declare.
Officers mentioned he was arrested on Monday on suspicion of intercourse with “with somebody who’s unconscious or for different causes unable to withstand the act”.
Borg Hoiby’s lawyer, Oeyvind Bratlien, mentioned his consumer is harmless. The listening to was held behind closed doorways.
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 within the Norwegian capital, Oslo.
In that incident, he was named as a suspect of bodily assault in opposition to a girl he had been in a relationship with.
Borg Hoiby later admitted inflicting the lady bodily hurt whereas beneath the affect of cocaine and alcohol and damaging her house. He mentioned he regretted the incident.
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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.
Nonetheless, he’s exterior the road of royal succession and has no title.
Crown Prince Haakon informed Norwegian TV on Tuesday: “These are severe allegations Marius now faces, and we’re in fact considering of all these affected.”
