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The entire print run of this month's
edition of the
British
National
Party's
newspaper has been seized by police.
About 60,000 copies of the September
issue of The Voice of Freedom were impounded after they arrived
at Dover on Sunday, in a lorry from Slovakia.
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Police said an investigation had been launched into whether
any public order offences regarding the incitement of
racial hatred had been committed. |
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"What
they are doing is trying to look for something wrong
when they don't know there is anything wrong"
Dr. Phill Edwards, BNP
spokesman |
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A spokesman said officers were working
with the Crown Prosecution Service.
Kent Police were alerted by customs officers
after the newspapers were found during a random check.
The two Slovak drivers were released
after questioning.
The British
National
Party
(BNP)
said the papers had been en route from the printworks in Slovakia
to a distribution facility in Leeds .
It has now published the paper on its
website.
Spokesman Dr Phill Edwards said the seizure
of the party newspaper was
"a serious attack by the state on freedom of speech".
'Abuse of power'
He added: "What they are doing is
trying to look for something wrong when they don't know there
is anything wrong.
"We are saying it is an abuse of
power - we are supposed to be a free country."
On its website, the party said none of
its leadership believed the customs search was random.
"No one believes
it was anything else other than a deliberate act of disruption
from the very top of
the Labour regime,"
it said. |
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The BNP
claims it was
deliberately targeted |
A Kent police spokesman said the
force was liaising with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS)
"?? to ascertain whether
any offences have been committed by the possession and intended
distribution of this publication ??".
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