Ivica Dacic (BetaPhoto/Serbian Ministry of Interior)
Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic on March 18 said that Serbia nor its police possessed or had ever deployed any prohibited device, including sonic weapon.
He added that the police only possessed a sound amplifier.
“It is a device similar to a megaphone, but stronger, which serves for the police to issue warnings during protests and loud noise,” Dacic explained.
He stressed that not even this device had been used as amendments to the Law on Police had not been passed.
“There was no need for us to use any sort of means, despite many difficulties in securing the protest and numerous acts of provocation against the police,” Dacic said commenting on the claims of an attack by a sound canon or some other type of acoustic deterrent device on protesters at the rally in Belgrade on March 15.
Dacic also said that the police force had cooperated with student security which had contributed to the rally ending without major consequences.
He also said that a dialogue had to start as the blockade of Serbia was not a solution and would definitely not be a way out of the current situation in the country.
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