Sound Cannon (BETAPHOTO/Serbian Interior Ministry)
In the week of April 14 to 18, Belgrade’s First Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office intends to begin interviewing members of the public regarding the still unknown event which caused mass panic and a stampede during the March 15 protest rally in Belgrade, the April 9 edition of the Politika daily has reported.
According to the paper, the Prosecutor’s Office is set to speak with over one hundred people who have submitted their information via non-governmental organizations and who say they were present when the peaceful commemoration of the victims of the Novi Sad railway station collapse was suddenly and violently interrupted.
The individuals in question, the daily writes, possess medical reports documenting the injuries sustained during the event.
The rally’s organizers claim that the silent commemoration of the dead was interrupted by the government deploying a LRAD, i.e. long-range acoustic device. Despite its use being illegal in Serbia, it eventually came to light that the authorities possess 16 units of the non-lethal crowd-dispersal weapon.
The First Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office later issued a statement insisting that the unknown event did not involve the use of a LRAD, which is also known as a sonic weapon or sound cannon.
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