“SOUND CANNON THUNDERED TO SCARE THEM”: Čeda Jovanović didn’t know he was live on TV for 8 minutes, revealed everything!

The LDP leader revealed that 200 armed men brought by former handball player Vlada Mandić were in the Belgrade City Assembly, that Vesko Milić ordered the Intervention Brigade to endure beatings from Pionirski Park, that Dačić didn’t even know that LRAD sound cannons existed in the police, and that the “greens,” alluding to the army – “fueled” Vučić.

LDP leader Čedomir Jovanović – unaware that he was live on TV Tanjug’s morning program – said on Sunday that a sound cannon was used at the large protest in Belgrade on March 15 to “scare” the demonstrators.

“They did use it for communication near the Assembly, but they also thundered from another place. Someone took it and turned it on. Like listening to music. They let out thunder. Whether it was a truck or a plane, it doesn’t even matter anymore. That sound cannon didn’t hit to cause injuries, but just to scare them, so you hear it like a car speeding towards you,” said Jovanović, unaware that he was live on the program hosted by Zoran Ostojić, a former high-ranking official of Jovanović’s LDP, and Dejan Miletić, a national security advisor to Serbia’s outgoing Prime Minister Miloš Vučević.

Let us recall that the authorities persistently deny using a sound cannon, threatening criminal prosecution for anyone who publicly states it. Jovanović often publicly expresses understanding for the moves of President Aleksandar Vučić, which is why many consider him a “pro-government politician.”

He had previously explained how Interior Minister Ivica Dačić “didn’t even know the police possessed LRAD (a sound cannon from the Genesis company).”

“I told him how many there are in the SAJ (Special Anti-Terrorist Unit), how many in the brigade, how many in the gendarmerie. The SAJ hasn’t even unpacked theirs,” he said.

Jovanović added that he “heard” that the “greens,” alluding to the army, had been fueling President Aleksandar Vučić all day, saying that after the silence, an attack on the Assembly and the Presidency would begin.

He emphasized that “everything broke” in the 11th minute of paying tribute to the victims in Novi Sad, when, according to him, three parallel events occurred.

“From the park (Pionirski, where the government supporters were) bottles and stones started flying. The Intervention Brigade asked to intervene, Vesko Milić (the head of Belgrade police) said, ‘no, raise your shields, duck your heads, you have helmets, endure the beatings.’ Otherwise, they wanted to provoke the brigade, to make the brigade rush in… The second parallel event is when a group of 40 of them come flying out of Resavska Street and rush at the students, six were arrested. And parallel to that, synchronously, you have the sound that was released and the chaos it caused,” said Jovanović.

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200 ARMED MEMBERS OF ATLAS IN THE CITY ASSEMBLY

He added that on that day, there were 200 armed members of “Atlas security” in the Belgrade City Assembly.

“Nobody wanted anything bad to happen. There were also those cretins, they came in front of the city assembly, 200 of them who entered in Atlas security uniforms. Then I called Dačić, he left the police around the city assembly, those are Vlada Mandić (former handball player and high-ranking SNS official) and these… They didn’t leave the City Assembly, there were 200 of them armed. And Dačić said he wouldn’t allow them to leave. And those with hammers who were coming, there was everything, but the essence is that they didn’t do anything either to cause an incident,” said Jovanović.

“I PREVENTED CIVIL WAR”

He then added that he was “the connection between one and the other all the time,” probably referring to the authorities and the students, and that he personally called the students near the Faculty of Law and told them to move away from the gendarmerie.

“All day I was the connection between one and the other. In the end, it ended with them telling me at 10 in the evening that I had prevented a civil war. I called those kids in front of the Faculty of Law to move away when three kids came out, three security guards, and stood in front of 200 gendarmes in Humvees. And they stopped them, and they started to help the bikers and paratroopers so that there wouldn’t be a fight near the Assembly. I called them, then the kids moved away, let them through, and in the end, the people applauded the gendarmes,” Jovanović stated.

“WHAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT, YOU DIDN’T WANT PUBLICLY”

The LDP leader said all this in the first ten minutes of the show, during which he was clearly unaware that they were broadcasting live.

First, the hosts greeted him at the very entrance to the studio, which Jovanović entered with coffee and water, and then the conversation took a tone not characteristic of the show.

On several occasions, Čeda Jovanović let out a swear word, the first time when he talked about how citizens were gathering and “lynching,” as he said, SNS members, saying that it was proof that society had “gone to hell,” and then when he asked, “what the hell do you need 200 people for.”

That Čeda did not know he was on the air can also be concluded from the fact that at one point, in the middle of his presentation, he said, “I will say that too…”, referring to the time when the show would start.

Somewhere around 8:30 AM, after exactly 8 minutes of conversation, Jovanović asked Ostojić if the show had started, and when he realized it had, he became visibly upset.

Ostojić even asked him: “What you were talking about, you didn’t want to talk about publicly, is that what you want to tell me?”.