Norwegian Princess’ Son Arrested for Assault

The 27-year-old son of Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit was arrested over the weekend on suspicion of assaulting a woman, police said.
Marius Borg Hoiby was born in 1997 from a relationship that preceded the princess’s 2001 marriage to Norway’s future king, Crown Prince Haakon. Police said they were called to an address in Oslo in the early hours of Sunday after an altercation in an apartment during the night. A 20-year-old man was arrested over the incident and released the next day, police said in a statement.
“As it has been reported in several media that this (person) is Marius Borg Hoiby, the police confirm that he is the suspect in the case,” the statement read. The young man, who is said to be in a relationship with the victim, is suspected of causing “physical harm and damage.” The royal family has not commented on the incident.
Hoiby was raised by Mette-Marit and Haakon along with his half-siblings, 20-year-old Princess Ingrid Alexandra and 18-year-old Prince Sverre Magnus, but unlike them he has no official public role. (ANSA-AFP).