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Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and MEP, said: "in seeking to arrest Dr Toben, Germany is claiming censorship rights to the entire internet
network". Gerard Batten MEP (UKIP) added: "We are sleepwalking towards an EU police
state". - UKIP received 2.7 million votes (16.8% of the national
British vote) in the 2004 European elections, gaining twelve seats in the European Parliament (EP).
Free-speech campaigners accuse Germany of trying to "legislate for the entire world by treating downloadable internet material as a German
publication". Photo: German prosecutor Andreas
Großmann.