Military analyst Aleksandar Radić stated today that he left the country after pro-government media published surveillance videos showing him, in which his minor daughter was also recorded.
“My daughter, who turns 16 in a few days, was targeted. On Tuesday, June 23, TV Informer showed her in surveillance footage, and during that day they also released fresh recordings of me waiting in a park for her to finish some obligations. What do you do when there are many enemies and your child is put at risk? We left the country,” Radić said in a written statement to the Beta news agency.
He added that he expected a “strike by the Serbian Progressive Party and the Military Security Agency,” but did not expect a large-scale operation involving many people following him, as well as media support.
Speaking about the possible motive, Radić assessed that the authorities want to remove him from the public scene as a critical individual who is “deeply connected to the military,” and that the story about the alleged use of a sound cannon was a convenient opportunity.
He also suggested that the authorities may have wanted him to leave the country.
“Because if they detain me over information, it would create a bad image of harassment of journalists. What do they do after creating an atmosphere of lynching except arrest me? Some in security structures think the plan was for one or more thugs to intercept me in the street and for TV Informer to call them ‘justice-loving’ citizens,” he said.
Radić said he would not be surprised if, after reviewing his computers and phones, they accused him of “preparing a coup d’état, spying for at least three agencies, and extremism.”
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“The electronic devices were taken by the Ministry of Interior and forwarded to the Military Police, pardon me, the Military Security Agency (VBA). Let them read them. My computers are unprotected because there is nothing there that threatens the state, only thousands and thousands of documents. They will surely invent something to present maliciously or add something—how hard is it for them to lie?” he added.
He stated that something similar happened a few years ago when a simple verbal conflict with a member of the defense system under VBA protection was “turned into a scandal by military police.”
“What can be expected now except big lies. For years I have felt the cold breath of the VBA on my neck, constant persecution and surveillance. They had a particularly strong interest in where I keep the tail and cone of Major Omer Mehić’s helicopter (which crashed in 2015). The crisis escalated in February last year after an interview I gave to Radar on the topic of the VBA. Since then it has not stopped, day and night. They tried to settle accounts in September last year during the parade at Ušće. I tried to survive, to do my job, until now,” he added in the written statement.
As a reminder, the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade announced on Friday, June 19, that it suspects students “planned a simulation of a sound cannon” at the March 15 protest, adding that it ordered the collection of information on the matter, as well as interviews with all those who publicly claimed that a sound cannon had been used against participants of that protest.
In this regard, on Monday, June 22, the apartment of military analyst Aleksandar Radić was searched, and lawyer and LSV – Vojvođani vice president Aleksandar Olenik was also summoned to the Criminal Police Directorate for an informational interview, which was conducted on June 24. The editor-in-chief of Srbin.info, Dejan Zlatanović, was also questioned on June 23. The editor-in-chief of the Beta news agency, Vojkan Kostić, who was with Radić on the day of the apartment search because he was interviewing him, was also summoned to the Criminal Police Directorate “on suspicion of preparing an act against the constitutional order and security of Serbia.”
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