Police have cleared a Swedish hockey player accused of touching a woman's breasts in an Ostersund night club because the woman's "gigantic breasts" could not have been avoided when he put his arm around her.

The incident reportedly happened at the Rest Marite night club Saturday night. The player for Swedish pro team IF Bjorkloven was not named.

"(Two women) were standing at a table and when the accused came up drunk and draped his arms around both of them from behind, he accidentally brushed against the breasts of one," investigator Mikael Lundberg said, according to Expressen.

"And it should be noted that they had gigantic breasts. It wasn't difficult to touch them. If you are drunk and you hang over someone, you can understand how it could have happened."

Nonetheless, the team has suspended the player.

And the local police are facing an angry backlash.

"It's completely idiotic," former chief prosecutor and legal expert Sven-Erik Alhem told Expressen. "It's absolutely disgusting. It is a sensational statement, I would say."

Breast size has no bearing on whether or not it was a sexual assault, said Swedish criminal lawyer and social commentator Elisabeth Massi Fritz.

Nor does being drunk excuse the player for the way he hung his arms around the woman.

"Being drunk does not exonerate," she said. "It's sexual assault under the criminal code if another person harasses you in a way that violates your sexual integrity."