Serbian Security Agency BIA: No Sound Cannon Used during Belgrade Protests, BIA Never Owned One

Security and Information Agency (BIA) (Photo: PrintScreen YouTube)

Serbia’s Security Information Agency (BIA) stated on March 17 that no one had used a "sound cannon" during the March 15 protests in Belgrade, and that the Agency had never had such a device in its possession, adding that BIA personnel deployed that day did not observe the presence of such a device at the protest.

"There was no recorded sound or any other effects produced by such a device, nor did our personnel experience any effects," BIA said in a statement in response to a question by the president of the People's Movement of Serbia, Miroslav Aleksic, who wanted to know if the police possessed two "sound cannons" and whether one had been used at the protest by a BIA officer.

The intelligence agency claims that it has never had such a device in its possession, "neither through 'warehouse acquisition' nor in any other way, which only confirms the unscrupulous nature of these lies and the unscrupulousness of those spreading them deliberatly."

Earlier today, Aleksic asked at a press conference whether it was true that one "sound cannon" was in the Police Brigade and another in the Gendarmerie unit. and whether the device had been obtained by BIA a few days before the protest.

The Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Serbian Armed Forces, and top government officials have previously denied multiple times the use of such or similar devices.