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A lad of Norway's crown princess has been charged with 32 offenses, including 4 rapes and respective acts of unit and assault, a authoritative said connected Monday.
Marius Borg Hoiby, who was calved from a narration earlier Crown Princess Mette-Marit's joined Crown Prince Haakon, has been nether probe since his arrest in August of past twelvemonth connected suspicion of assaulting a girlfriend.
In summation to 4 counts of rape, the charges see home maltreatment against a erstwhile spouse and respective counts of violence, disturbing the peace, vandalism and usurpation of restraining orders against different erstwhile partner.
He is besides charged with filming the genitals of a fig of women without their cognition oregon consent, nationalist authoritative Sturla Henriksbo told reporters.
"The maximum punishment for the offences listed successful the indictment is imprisonment of up to 10 years," helium said.
"These are precise superior acts that tin permission lasting scars and destruct lives," the authoritative said.
"The information that Marius Borg Hoiby is simply a subordinate of the royal household should, of course, not mean that helium should beryllium treated much lightly oregon much severely than if akin acts had been committed by others," Henriksbo said.
Hoiby denies the astir superior charges against him, but helium plans to plead blameworthy to immoderate lesser charges, his lawyer Petar Sekulic told the Reuters quality agency.
"He does not hold with the claims regarding rape and home violence," Sekulic told Reuters.
Picture taken connected June 16, 2022, successful Oslo, Norway, shows Marius Borg Hoiby, lad of Norwegian Crown Princess Mette-Marit.
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The 4 rapes for which Hoiby is charged allegedly took spot successful 2018, 2023 and 2024, the past 1 aft the constabulary probe began.
Hoiby has already admitted to battle and vandalism successful the August 2024 incidental for which helium was arrested.
"It is up to the courts to perceive this lawsuit and to scope a decision," the royal palace said successful a connection obtained by Reuters.
In a nationalist connection 10 days aft his arrest, helium said helium had acted "under the power of intoxicant and cocaine aft an argument," having suffered from "mental troubles" and struggling "for a agelong clip with substance abuse."
Hoiby was propelled into the spotlight astatine the property of 4 erstwhile his parent joined Norway's crown prince, with whom she went connected to person 2 much children.
He was raised by the royal mates alongside his step-siblings Princess Ingrid Alexandra and Prince Sverre Magnus, aged 21 and 19.
Unlike them, helium has nary authoritative nationalist role.
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