The leaders of the regime in Serbia claim that invitations have already been sent to the American and Russian security services. What kind of political game is this?
The Serbian authorities claim that invitations have already been sent to the American and Russian security services, and their arrival in Serbia should follow in the next few days, writes Mother said.
The state claims that it wants a transparent investigation with the help of foreign actors, who, according to them, should confirm that no sonic weapons were used during the mentioned protest.
On the other hand, some members of the opposition argue that the investigation should not be conducted by foreign security services, but by the UN and the OSCE. According to the first reactions, the state has nothing against their participation either.
FBI and FSB investigation – evidence of institutional collapse
The government's call is purely propaganda-motivated, he said DW military and political commentator Aleksandar Radić. He sees all this as another way to buy time.
"The incident of March 15 is very serious and it dramatically undermines trust in the Serbian authorities. Something happened that cannot be denied and they now need some way out and crisis management. I still think that any interference from the outside is not necessary and that it is a problem that must be solved within Serbia. Because, it is clear that the nation has been divided and there are those who believe that nothing happened, but also those who believe that the authorities attacked their people at the moment of honoring the victims in silence," he says Working.
Political analyst Dragomir Anđelković believes that these calls to foreign security services are "a direct acknowledgment that all institutions in Serbia have collapsed."
"It is the sole fault of Aleksandar Vučić. It is terrible when citizens do not trust the police, the judiciary, the Church, or those institutions that should have some kind of credibility. In this situation of internal distrust, Vučić is trying to buy him off to some foreign institutions that are considered serious, whatever you think of them. That is why he proposes to involve the FBI and the FSB for what our institutions could and should have already investigated and given their verdict," Anđelković believes.
Doubt all government claims
The response of the invited parties is still unknown, and at the moment it is not even known whether they will even accept the invitation and come to Serbia. The only thing that the Serbian public has at its disposal are the statements of Serbian officials who claim that they are coming, but of course it is impossible to verify these statements.
Aleksandar Radić nevertheless believes that "it is absurd that any foreign security service is dealing with this in Serbia and that it is conducting an investigation."
"It is absurd to expect that they will give any answer. Because it is obvious that the state authorities possessed devices that they claimed they did not possess, and this opens even wider doubts about the credibility of any further statements. The company's devices genasys were shown under public pressure, and now we can rightfully ask the question: how do we know that you don't have any Russian or Chinese devices, given that Aleksandar Vulin boasted that Russia was helping Serbia in the fight against the color revolution," notes Radić.
This fact, according to Radić, also raises the question of impartiality, in this case the FSB - "and can we now expect that service to be objective in its analysis? It is unacceptable for the service, which has already taken such a position in Serbian internal politics, to be some kind of arbiter, if we know that they already have the gratitude of the Serbian government", our interlocutor points out.
FSB – an impartial collaborator of the authorities?
For Dragomir Anđelković, the public thank-you letter of Aleksandar Vulin, the deputy prime minister in the technical mandate, to the Russian services for help in the fight against the "color revolution" is evidence that "Vučić may be able to market it all more easily with the Russian side. But we must bear in mind that a similar case may be with Trump and the FBI, because the American president is also showing himself to be a political trader, and shows interest in some business in Serbia."
When it comes to Russia's support for the fight against the "colored revolution", referred to by Vulin, Anđelković emphasizes that, "if we analyze the Russian media, most of them laugh at the stories about the colored revolution. Even in that media sphere, which is heavily influenced by the government there, the story of the colored revolution is not dominant", says Anđelković.
What exactly could the FBI and FSB investigate in Serbia? And is there anything that would have to be investigated on-site that could not be investigated remotely? There are videos and statements from the participants, but since the sonic weapon does not leave any physical traces, perhaps this is the reason why the authorities decided to stretch the whole story a little further, pretending to support transparency about the whole case.
Political stance instead of facts
Aleksandar Radić also notes that "there are recordings and statements that are publicly available and the aforementioned services can't get anything new besides that. Admittedly, there are recordings of state cameras, about which there was a lot of controversy, because they use Chinese face detection software, but even they are not very helpful, because you don't have material evidence when you use sound waves. But, as already noted, we have interested parties there and it is possible to get some conclusion based on a political attitude, not based on facts", says Radić.
Dragomir Anđelković claims that "the FBI and the FSB cannot analyze anything here, except that they are participating in a fraud whose aim is to impose on the Serbian public that what was evidently done was not done here. Those weapons were designed in such a way that its use is difficult to prove. That is why Aleksandar Vučić decided on something that seems perfidious and is difficult to prove," Anđelković told DW.
(Un)controlled paramilitary
Radić points out that in the whole story, the question of the activities of paramilitary groups in Serbia is completely ignored, which, in his opinion, is a first-class security problem in Serbia. According to him, "now the question is whether maybe - let's call it conditional - some paramilitary group also used a sound cannon. Officials claim that it was not them. If not them, who was it? Paramilitary groups were certainly visible on March 15, they had their own organization and symbols. In the recent past, we had the case of Banjska, which showed that there are such groups, which the state tolerates. Unfortunately, in every country where that red line is crossed and paramilitary organization is allowed, with the marginalization of state bodies security, they eventually turn against their own population", concludes Aleksandar Radić for DW.
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