What exactly happened in Kralja Milan Street on Saturday, March 15 at 19.11:XNUMX p.m., during the fifteen-minute silence during the protest in Belgrade, is still an enigma that needs to be investigated by the prosecution. However, only a handful of announcements are made by the authorities
It's been ten days since the big one protest u Belgrade and the largest ever such gathering in Serbia. In addition to being the largest, the protest was held March 15 He also stood out for incident in Kralja Milana Street when, according to reports and testimonies, some kind of roar separated the crowd into two parts towards the edges of the street and the sidewalk.
Since then, various theories and claims have been made. From the top of the government came first denials about Serbia having any sonic weapons, and after a few days a presentation of devices that Serbia does have. And not one, but 16 LRAD devices.
And while the Minister of Police admitted that we have them, to this day everyone denies that the devices were used on the day of the protest.
The President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić, the Minister of Health Zlatibor Lončar, numerous experts from various fields have spoken out several times on this occasion, the investigation of the American FBI and the Russian FSB has been mentioned, and the body that should conduct the investigation in Serbia - the Belgrade Prosecutor's Office - has hardly spoken out.
The first basic public prosecution it was announced three days after the event, from the reports collected until then, it appears that none of the organizational units and members of the security forces of the protest on March 15 in Belgrade used a "sound cannon". As it was announced at the time, "the prosecutor's office will continue to work on establishing the reasons for provoking the behavior of citizens on a critical occasion."
The announcement states that on March 16, based on media information, on various portals as well as videos published on social networks, and in connection with the event of 19.11:15 p.m. on March XNUMX, when, according to the statements of Prusut citizens, a loud and unusual sound was heard, which caused panic, running, pushing and falling of the gathered citizens, in Kralja Milana Street, it formed a case and sent a request to collect the necessary information to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Directorate of the police.
The prosecution did not advertise any more after that.
"The facts that were presented to the public refute the conclusions of the prosecution. This is because the prosecution did not carry out a full procedure but met the expectations of politics," Goran Ilić, prosecutor of the Supreme Public Prosecutor's Office, told "Vreme".
As he adds, "there remains a faint hope that a full and effective procedure will be carried out in the future with respect for the facts that the public has come to know".
"Informer" against Zagorka Dolovac
At the same time, the tabloid Informer asks why the Supreme Public Prosecutor Zagorka Dolovac and the prosecutors are silent, and why the Prosecutor's Office for High-Tech Crime has not arrested anyone since March 15 for the bloody crime of "causing panic and disorder under Article 343".
According to that newspaper, "prosecutor Boris Majlat from Sombor, who was appointed as the prosecutor of this prosecution by the discretionary decision of Zagorka Dolovac, did not take any step to arrest those who created a disturbance in society by advocating the theory of the "sound cannon" and causing panic on social networks."
In the Tsar Trojan's sound cannon
In connection with the prosecution's investigation, the students in the blockade of the Faculty of Law also spoke out.
As they state, the highest state officials have once again proven that they are exerting illegal influence on the prosecutor's office by calling on it to use the "so-called" investigation to destroy the constitutionally guaranteed right to freedom of speech. By delegating such work to the prosecution, they put it in the service of intimidating witnesses.
"Instead, the prosecutor's office should investigate why and on whose orders the sound weapons were placed on MUP vehicles, whether they are legal at all, and whether and whose fault it was used on March 15 during the 15 minutes of silence," said the students blocking the Faculty of Law on the X social network.
"We didn't forget about the sound cannon of the Trojan emperor!", stated the students.
At the very end, the question remains, they add - whether the prosecution will "initiate proceedings against the President of the Republic and the resigned Minister of the Interior, who spread false information about the lack of possession of any sonic weapons, as well as LRAD weapons, or whether those in question will use their political immunity and thus continue to 'legally' spread false information".
THE EMPEROR OF TROJAN HAS A SOUND CANNON
WE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN!The highest state officials have once again proven that they are exerting undue influence on the prosecutor's office, urging it to carry out a "so-called" investigation that undermines the constitutionally guaranteed right to freedom of speech. By delegating such work to the prosecutor's office, they are putting it in... pic.twitter.com/mbgVJYDASn
— Legal in the Block (@blokadapravni) March 23, 2025
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