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Shop raided over porn claim
POLICE have seized hundreds of videos from a Fitzroy bookshop owned by a man who once wrote to US porn king Larry Flynt in a fight against censorship laws.
Officers from the Melbourne regional response unit moved in on the Polyester Books shop in Brunswick St, Fitzroy, on Wednesday morning.
The raid was in response to a complaint alleging X-rated and unclassified videos and DVDs were openly displayed in the shop.
Officers seized about 500 videos and DVDs.
The shop's owner, Paul Elliott, is expected to be charged on summons with selling unclassified or X-rated material.
Mr Elliott's shop was raided in 2000, when books about the drug culture were seized but returned to him.
Mr Elliott said he never heard back from Mr Flynt after writing to him in early 2000.
"He was probably too busy to be worried about what's happening in Australia," he said.
POLICE have seized hundreds of videos from a Fitzroy bookshop owned by a man who once wrote to US porn king Larry Flynt in a fight against censorship laws.
Officers from the Melbourne regional response unit moved in on the Polyester Books shop in Brunswick St, Fitzroy, on Wednesday morning.
The raid was in response to a complaint alleging X-rated and unclassified videos and DVDs were openly displayed in the shop.
Officers seized about 500 videos and DVDs.
The shop's owner, Paul Elliott, is expected to be charged on summons with selling unclassified or X-rated material.
Mr Elliott's shop was raided in 2000, when books about the drug culture were seized but returned to him.
Mr Elliott said he never heard back from Mr Flynt after writing to him in early 2000.
"He was probably too busy to be worried about what's happening in Australia," he said.
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