Marius Borg Høiby seated beside his mother, Norwegian Crown Princess Mette-Marit. — AFP file
Norwegian authorities announced on Tuesday that the 27-year-old son of Crown Princess Mette-Marit had been apprehended on allegations of rape. In a public statement, the police disclosed that Marius Borg Hoiby, born from a previous relationship before Mette-Marit's 2001 union with Crown Prince Haakon, was taken into custody on Monday night. The arrest was based on suspicion of contravening the criminal code, specifically involving 'sexual intercourse with an individual who is unconscious or otherwise incapable of resisting the act,' according to the statement.
The police further clarified that the alleged rape did not involve intercourse but a sexual act where the victim was unable to resist. Borg Hoiby had previously been detained on August 4 following a late-night altercation at a woman's residence in Oslo, where he was accused of inflicting bodily harm on the resident, with whom he was in a relationship. Reports from Norwegian media indicated that a knife was discovered embedded in one of the walls of the woman's bedroom during the incident.
Subsequently, he was arrested again in September for breaching a restraining order. Upon his latest arrest on Monday, he was found in a vehicle with the purported victim from the August incident. Additionally, the police revealed on Tuesday that the suspicions related to the August incident now encompass allegations of domestic abuse. The authorities are yet to determine whether he will be held in custody.
Born in 1997 from a relationship preceding Mette-Marit's marriage to Crown Prince Haakon, the heir to the Norwegian throne, Hoiby was raised alongside his step-siblings, Princess Ingrid Alexandra, 20, and Prince Sverre Magnus, 18, by Mette-Marit and Haakon. Unlike his siblings, he does not hold an official public role.
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