{"id":574501,"date":"2026-07-29T22:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T22:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/574501\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T22:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T22:43:12","slug":"norwegian-man-arrested-and-accused-of-raping-irish-woman-in-croatia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/574501\/","title":{"rendered":"Norwegian man arrested and accused of raping Irish woman in Croatia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>POLICE IN CROATIA arrested a Norwegian man last Friday on suspicion of raping a young Irish woman in the coastal city of Split.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The alleged offence took place on 19 July, when the two met in a nightclub and later went to a beach to swim, Croatia\u2019s State Attorney\u2019s office said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is alleged that after asking to have sex and being told no, the man then raped her.<\/p>\n<p>Following questioning of the suspect, a request was granted to keep him in pre-trial detention because he was deemed a flight risk.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Foreign Affairs told The Journal it was aware of the case and is providing the woman with consular assistance.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"POLICE IN CROATIA arrested a Norwegian man last Friday on suspicion of raping a young Irish woman in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[62714,42,43,9277,298,40078,38795,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-574501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-croatia","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-none","tag-norway","tag-rape","tag-split","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}