Hachette withdraws memoir after police raise concerns about accuracy
The memoir Special Operations Group by retired former member of the Victoria Police Special Operations Group (SOG) Christophe Glasl has been withdrawn from publication by Hachette Australia after Victoria Police raised concerns about its accuracy, the Age reports.
In a statement on Monday, Hachette said: ‘It has come to our attention that some of the content of this book is inaccurate. We have taken the decision to withdraw this book from sale immediately while we undertake further review.’
Hachette told Books+Publishing that booksellers with stock ‘can reach out to ADS for a no-fault return’.
Victoria Police said it had ‘concerns about the accuracy of the book including some of the author’s claims about jobs he attended’. ‘Of particular concern is chapter 18 which focuses on the author’s claimed involvement in the resolution of the Port Arthur massacre. To confirm, the former member was not part of the SOG deployment to Port Arthur nor was he even in Tasmania at the time.’
A police spokesperson told the Age Glasl was not one of the 10 Victorian SOG members that went to Tasmania on the day of the massacre, and said there were also doubts about other stories Glasl included in the memoir.
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