In a stinging rebuke of the Serbian government, Academician Radomir Saičić, a full member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU) and professor at the University of Belgrade’s Faculty of Chemistry, stated that it is “entirely obvious” that authorities deployed illegal acoustic weapons against peaceful student demonstrators and citizens on March 15, 2025.
Speaking to the Beta news agency, Saičić flatly dismissed the Higher Public Prosecution’s (VJT) current claims that student movements organized a simulated acoustic device as utter “nonsense.”
Protecting Students Amid State Aggression
Saičić, who personally acted as a security coordinator for university students during the mass anti-corruption rally, emphasized that the academic staff’s sole focus was protecting lives, not orchestrating complex audio fabrications.
- The Reality on the Ground: Saičić countered the state’s narrative by arguing that a crowd’s psychological panic and acute physical reactions to an airborne sonic wave cannot be simulated or coordinated in advance.
- Persecution of the Victims: The academician sharply criticized the police and judiciary for launching raids, executing apartment searches, and using state-controlled television networks to frame students as terrorists, rather than aggressively prosecuting the illegal use of military-grade sonic equipment.
Key Developments in the "Sonic Weapon" Crackdown (June 2026)
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Legal Action --> Higher Public Prosecution (VJT) investigating "constitutional threats."
State Target --> High-profile figures who publicly stated a sonic device was deployed.
Recent Raids --> Military analyst Aleksandar Radić (apartment searched June 22).
Interrogations--> Attorney Aleksandar Olenik, Beta Editor Vojkan Kostić, Dejan Zlatanović.
International --> ECHR interim order bans Serbia from using acoustic crowd control.
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A Systemic Diversion to Mask High-Level Graft and Betrayal
According to Academician Saičić, the regime’s sudden determination to reopen the “sonic cannon case” from last year is an act of political desperation fueled by plunging polling numbers and a rapidly expanding student resistance movement.
He highlighted three main corruption scandals that the government is actively attempting to suppress via public media manipulation:
- The Senjak Assassination: The ongoing fallout regarding the murder of Aleksandar Nešović at Restaurant 27, which deeply implicates former Belgrade Police Chief Veselin Milić.
- Unreported Ministerial Wealth: Public outcry over hidden real estate assets belonging to Mining and Energy Minister Dubravka Đedović Handanović.
- The Kosovo Concessions: Massive domestic distraction away from the final, highly controversial administrative concessions being ironed out regarding Kosovo.
Academician Radomir Saičić: “This regime is attempting to project its own inherent malice onto our students with a level of immorality that surpasses anything we have seen in recent decades. However, anything built on a lie is doomed to collapse… The academic community has compiled a joint registry sent to the Higher Public Prosecution, affirming that acoustic weapons were indeed used against the populace. If speaking this truth warrants criminal prosecution, then we demand that every single academic signatory be called in for police interrogation.“
Saičić’s defiant challenge follows a wave of aggressive state actions executed by the Service for Combating Organized Crime (SBPOK) and the UKP. This week alone, state apparatuses targeted military analyst Aleksandar Radić, human rights lawyer Aleksandar Olenik, and Beta Editor-in-Chief Vojkan Kostić, threating them with charges of undermining the constitutional order simply for reporting on the physical health anomalies suffered by protestors during the historic March 15 incident.
