A reliable source from the MUP told "Vremen" that one of the sonic "cannons" was given to the Police Brigade on Banovo Brdo in charge of suppressing riots and that, when it arrived, it was tested on people once - and never again because the policemen were incapacitated for work
The government has not decided whether in the forces and services security there is a weapon prohibited by law, which in its characteristics corresponds to what is colloquially called "sound cannon".
The source of Vremena, a retired officer, says that in 2018, something like this was imported through a domestic arms dealer, and the consent was signed by the then ministers of defense and interior, Aleksandar Vulin and Nebojša Stefanović.
Another source states that similar weapons were imported from Israel in 2022, also through a private arms dealer, and that the question now is whether they remained in Serbia or were "re-exported".
Questions from Miroslav Aleksić
The President of the National Movement of Serbia, Miroslav Aleksić, asked a public question today whether it is true that the BIA took over the sound cannon from the Gendarmerie a few days before the protest and whether its member tested it at the base of the Belgrade Gendarmerie detachment in Rakovica.
He also asked who and on whose order procured the means of coercion, which is called a device for emitting sound waves or a sound cannon, which is provided for in the Draft Law on Internal Affairs, which was not adopted, because the citizens rebelled during the public inspection.
It was immediately denied by the BIA, which announced that its members who were engaged on March 15 did not observe the presence of such a device, "nor were the sound or any other effects produced by such a device noted."
The BIA claims that it never had a "sound cannon" or any similar device in its possession, "neither through 'taking from the warehouse', nor in any other way".
The gun uses a lot of electricity.
A retired technical service officer confirmed for "Vreme" that the device must have been placed on the roof or balcony of a building and directed from there. That device, he added, consumes a lot of electricity, something like a computer that "mines" bitcoins, and must have a good power source, or even its own generator.
Several "Vremena" sources from the MUP confirmed that they certainly did not use that device, not even the Gendarmerie, and they could not say whether someone else did.
A reliable source from the Ministry of Internal Affairs says that one of those "cannons" was given to the Police Brigade on Banovo Brda, in charge of suppressing riots, and that when it arrived, it was tested on people once, and never again because the policemen were incapacitated for their work.
He adds that Aleksic's claims about the test at the Gendarmerie base are debatable and asks who the weapon was tested on - certainly not the gendarmes who were waiting for the multi-day action.
Perhaps the most senseless of all was the defense of the Ministry of Defense and the Army, whose head of the Directorate for Defense Technologies on Sunday evening told some general platitudes, obviously bad and hastily learned, on Sunday evening in Dnevnik Radio-television Serbia, so that his colleagues also laughed at him on social networks.
Many experts question whether what was used on March 15 on the protesters was a sound cannon, while it was the non-governmental organization Earshot stated in its analysis that the sounds provided to them match the sound of a vortex cannon.
Support for students in front of RTS takes on a new dimension - citizens bring food, instruments and good will. The streets are closed to traffic, but open for solidarity and togetherness, which has been going on for the sixth day
The sharp reaction of SNS deputy Vladimir Đukanović came after claims appeared in the media that the students of the Faculty of Law in the blockade are demanding the holding of extraordinary elections in June. Đukanović assessed that, if that request is truly authentic, "the Faculty of Law has lost its purpose of existence."
Out of a total of 3.000 medical students in Niš, only 153 of them reported attending online classes during the blockade, according to the protesting students. They say that the data is discouraging for the faculty administration and that they are determined to persevere in the fight to replace the leadership.
Danilo Mandić, bodyguard and nephew of the President of the Parliament of Montenegro, is suspected of having participated in the shooting in which Darko Perović and Aris Turković were wounded.
In his Easter greeting, the new Minister of Information, Boris Bratina, calls on the competent authorities to unblock Radio and Television of Serbia because its downfall is tantamount to a coup d'état.
Anyone who condemns the regime's targeting of people from the media, the non-governmental sector, the opposition and universities, must not agree to this targeting of RTS editors and journalists either.
The government of Đur Mazut is "counter-revolutionary", focused on retaliation and state and street violence against opponents of the regime
Depriving Dejan Ilić, an intellectual with an impeccable life and work biography, of his freedom, without the slightest meaningful reason, is just one of the brutal indicators that the regime has turned against its own citizens and is entering a phase of terror
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