Marius Borg Hoiband (27), The boy Princess Mette-Marit had before she married Norway’s crown prince, Haakon, was arrested on Monday night by Oslo district police around the royal estate of Skagum, in an operation the country’s media described as carefully planned. This third arrest in four months is for more serious charges than the previous ones: A 20-year-old girl was raped Those who, according to authorities, “could not resist the act.” After two nights at the central police station in the Greenland neighborhood, it is confirmed that Marius Borg Hoiby, the Norwegian royal family when he was four years old and the hero of a wedding synonymous with modernism for the monarchy, Police are requesting preventive detention and he will appear in Oslo District Court He is scheduled to appear before a judge this Wednesday and decide on an admission that could keep him in prison preventively for up to six months. His lawyer, Øyvind Bratlien, has already expressed his opposition to the public broadcaster: “I think there is no reason for a prison sentence.”
In recent hours, the Oslo police have received the most attention, and once the 48 hours from the moment of his arrest were reached, the police had two options: release him or request preventive detention before a judge. On Tuesday, police lawyer Andreas Kruszius confirmed that the charges against Marius Borg Hoeby (who already has pending charges related to an episode of violence with his romantic partner in recent months and related to the previous two) have been expanded. A violation of section 291 letter b of the Norwegian Penal Code, which applies to sexual intercourse with a person who is unconscious or otherwise unable to resist the act. In the past few hours it has emerged that this new alleged victim does not know Marius, the incidents took place at his home without his knowledge and in March.
At the time of the arrest Marius Borg was in a car with the victim of the Frogner incident, the first woman among the four affected by the process and who was then in a romantic relationship with the princess’s son on August 4 when the violent episode occurred that Marius himself admitted in a statement.
After Marius’s latest arrest, Norway’s royal estate in Hakone and Mette-Merit searched
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The police also confirmed that Marius’ house was searched and evidence relevant to the case was seized. “We are very satisfied with the arrest and the search operation,” the police official said. It must be remembered that Marius’s house is a hundred meters away from the heir’s official residence and within the royal estate which King Olaf, Haakon’s grandfather, bought at the time to dispose of the heir. “It was searched in Skagum because we are looking for evidence within the framework of existing charges,” said the Oslo district police lawyer who confirmed that evidence relevant to the case had been seized. According to Norwegian media, Princess Mette-Marit will remain inside her home while they cordon off the area and search her son’s home.
This third arrest caught the Crown Prince on an official visit to Jamaica and it is expected that, after completing the scheduled agenda, he will return to Oslo in the next few hours. “I would have loved to be home with Matt today,” Haakon said while addressing the media. The country’s future king claimed he was not aware of Marius’ arrest, although the Norwegian public broadcaster claimed to have received reports of the possible arrest, and did not comment on the search at the Skagum estate. “I believe the police do their job well,” the prince added, leaving it up to Marius’ lawyer to make the appropriate statement on the line that was set last August.
The allegations against Marius have not escalated in recent months. There are currently four women and one man, one of whom is a friend, who have accused him of multiple episodes of intimate relationship abuse, physical or emotional violence, material damage and threats. It must be remembered that on August 4 it was the young woman who decided to report it, and then it was Marius’ two ex-girlfriends who went to the police to confirm, according to their version, that they were also victims. , abuse Marius Borg admitted the events that happened on August 4 in a statement and then confirmed that he has mental health problems and various addictions, which will be known because the blood was analyzed at the time of his first arrest. In the other two cases, which involved his ex-girlfriends (Nora Haukland and Julianne Sneckestad), he was in fact not guilty, while in Julianne’s case he said he received abuse. Then there was the violation of a restraining order, in which Marius was arrested a second time, and now this third arrest on a rape charge of which he pleaded not guilty.