Allegation of rape
Mette-Marit’s son Marius Borg Høiby has to be in custody
The son of Norwegian Crown Princess Mette-Marit, Marius Borg Høiby, is accused of rape. Now the district court has decided that he must be remanded in custody.
The eldest son of Norwegian Crown Princess Mette-Marit, Marius Borg Høiby, is remanded in custody for a week. He is banned from writing and visiting, as Oslo magistrate Anne-Lene Åvangen Hødnebø announced behind closed doors after a detention hearing. The police had requested two weeks of custody.
New allegations have been made against Høiby in recent months, including two sexual offenses, the most serious allegations against him to date. The 27-year-old denies the new allegations, according to his lawyer Øyvind Bratlien, who promptly told broadcaster NRK that a decision would be made on Thursday whether to appeal the court order.
Marius Borg Høiby is one of Mette-Marit’s three children; he comes from the princess’s previous relationship. Together with heir apparent Crown Prince Haakon, Mette-Marit has two other children, the Hereditary Princess Ingrid Alexandra and Prince Sverre Magnus. Although Høiby belongs to the royal family, he does not have the title of prince and is not an official member of the Norwegian royal family.
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The negative headlines around Marius Borg Hoiby There’s no stopping: The eldest son of Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit was arrested for the third time in four months. He has already been accused of assaulting ex-girlfriends, property damage and other crimes, and now the 27-year-old is also accused of rape. Borg Høiby is suspected of violating a criminal law section “concerning sex with a person who is unconscious or otherwise unable to defend themselves,” Norwegian police said. He denies the new allegations, as his lawyer Øyvind Bratlien told several Norwegian media. The scandal has been bothering the royal family for months. In August he is said to have “mentally and physically” attacked a girlfriend and vandalized a room. The woman called the police after the incident and had to go to the hospital with a concussion
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Nevertheless, the Marius case has severely shaken the Oslo court since this summer. The princess’s son was arrested for the first time on August 4th on allegations of bodily harm and property damage and was released the following day. In a written statement, he admitted that under the influence of alcohol and cocaine he had become violent towards his girlfriend at the time and had destroyed things in her apartment.
Now the accusation of two sexual offenses against Marius Borg Høiby
Since then, the allegations against Høiby have continued to expand, including abuse in close relationships with two former partners. On Tuesday, the police announced that he had been arrested for the third time in four months and that he was now accused of, among other things, violating Section 291, which regulates rape offenses in Norway – the most serious accusation against the 27-year-old to date. year olds. According to the paragraph, violations can be punished with up to ten years in prison.
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The next accusation followed on Wednesday: a second sexual offense had been discovered, which is now being investigated, said Oslo police prosecutor Andreas Kruszewski after the detention hearing. Specifically, both cases involve sexual intercourse without sexual intercourse with women who are said to have been unable to resist the act. According to NRK and other Norwegian media, police have seized videos on Høiby’s phone that show the suspected first incident and possibly also the second.
Defender: “Catastrophic misjudgment”
Høiby denies the alleged sexual offenses. Both allegations are “catastrophic misjudgments” by the prosecutor, his lawyer Bratlien told NRK after the court hearing. Regarding the first accusation, he had already made it clear that the case looked different and was far more nuanced than what was portrayed in the media. Viewed in the right context, the video material does not show anything criminal, he told the TV 2 station.
The investigation will now provide more information, while Høiby will remain in custody until November 27th. To date, no official charges have been brought against him for any of the allegations.
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Source: Stern
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