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Belgrade, Serbia: sonic wave attack during protest (March 15th, 2025)
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Yeah, I know about the blockade on documents. This was an issue even in 2015 when I was there. I'm one of the people who trained Serbian journalists how to gather and leak data ;)
That N1 article reads like a speculative opinion piece. But Serbian isn't my first language and I'm not up-to-date on all of the nuances of EU-Serbia relations so I can't really comment there. I'll just say Serbia need to do what's best for Serbia.
PS - I don't know if you caught my edit in my previous post. I found the source of that Genasys rumor, it's disinformation ;)
Edit: Forgot to mention, I'm looking into that Direktno.rs article now and seeing what I can verify. Which is tough with the document blockade as you mentioned.
Edit 2: Not finding anything linking Jugoimport & Romax directly to Genasys. Literally everything I find is linking back to the same article you linked, which sadly doesn't contain anything concrete. I've found a few pictures and videos of vehicles that have dishes on top them (the Porsche pics made me laugh.) But nothing confirming they're Genasys or even actual LRADs and their shape/profile don't match any of the Genasys systems.
If I'm reading it right, the VK post is from 20 minutes ago, the direktno article is from 2022. Tthe article is the source, not the other way around. The FB link says "content unavailable".
In the meantime, someone dug up a report (2024 , page 20) of a "suspected LRAD" being used by the Gendarmerie (ie. the guys on the field yesterday) against migrants up near the Hungarian border, but their source (November 2023, page 8), just says "gun-like sonic device".
The N1 article is a report on the statement of ret. gen. Ponoš, it's his opinion. And, frankly, that seems to be the prevailing opinion. Guess we'll see if Flinten-Uschi says anything about yesterday beyond being very deeply concerned as usual.
BTW, a DOS-era minister of the interior just went on Nova S TV and called it "Genasys brand, imported by Jugoimport, I believe in 2022, I believe through Israel, though American in make". I get the feeling more stuff is gonna float up in the next few days.
Sorry, I should have clarified. The VK post is from 22 hours ago and not directly related the incident yesterday. But the TEXT from that was used to amplify other posts attributing the system used last night to Genasys, across all of social media. Such as the Facebook post I linked, but that's been rightfully taken down (hence the confusion probably). This is a common tactic with Chinese and Russian bot campaigns, the same exact text being used with maybe a 2-3 words changed around. They just pivoted an already running LRAD disinfo campaign into one suited for what happened yesterday. Again, a common tactic with them.
And Genasys doesn't make any "gun-like" systems that I'm aware of. They're usually vertical panels like this, this and this. Or the horn speaker thing that can be carried by individual people, but this isn't going to have the range we saw last night. The horizontal satellite dish looking ones and the ones on towers also aren't super directional and are used more for public addresses, so not the kind that are used for crowd control/making people sick.
I'll look into the Israel connection in a bit too. That's probably a good lede.