PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE FOR ORGANIZED CRIME WITHDREW: The “sound cannon” case returned to the basic prosecutor’s office in Belgrade!

The Public Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime is no longer acting in the “Sound Cannon” case.

As stated by that prosecutor’s office for RTS, on June 4, 2025, after the collected information, the case files were returned for action to the First Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade.

The case, which relates to the events of March 15 in Belgrade, was opened in the First Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office, after several criminal charges were filed with the claim that a weapon – a sound cannon – was used at the protest, which caused panic among those present.

The handover of the case to the First Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office and the cessation of proceedings in the “Sound Cannon” case implies that there are no grounds for suspicion and evidence for the allegations from the criminal complaint – that the criminal offense of terrorism, under the jurisdiction of the Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime, was committed.

The case was opened in the Public Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime at the end of May, after several criminal charges for the criminal offense of terrorism, as they announced at the time.

At that time, the Prosecutor’s Office sent a request to the First Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office to provide the case files, which had already been formed, but with a different legal qualification. At the time, they stated in a response to the media that the case also contained documentation protected by the “strictly confidential” secrecy mark, so no more details were published.

The “Sound Cannon” case was formed in the First Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office immediately after the protest in Belgrade on March 15, and on March 18, that prosecutor’s office announced that the sound cannon was not used and that they were continuing the investigation to determine what caused the panic among the participants.

The announcement of that prosecutor’s office states that a case was formed and a request was sent to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Police Directorate, to collect the necessary information, with a request to determine whether a weapon, a pyrotechnic or some other generally dangerous device, was used, which led or could have caused danger to the life or body of the citizens present.

At that time, reports and data from the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Health and the Security and Information Agency were submitted, on the basis of which, as they stated, it was unequivocally established that none of the mentioned organizational units and members engaged in securing the protest “heard, saw and used the so-called sound cannon”.

Also, from the Analysis of the Ministry of Defense – Military Technical Institute, it follows that based on the available data and open sources, there are no indications that a “sound cannon” was used at the critical moment, the First Basic Prosecutor’s Office stated at the time.

By the end of May this year, 170 people had been questioned at the Prosecutor’s Office.