Miljus Asks Prosecutor Markovic to Hear Him on Sound Cannon

European Serbia list candidate Branko Miljus has formally asked the Belgrade Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office to have deputy chief public prosecutor Miodrag Markovic question him as a witness to the events of March 15, 2025. The letter was sent on September 16, a day after Markovic told RTS that the prosecution would pursue criminal charges against everyone found to have spread, in his words, falsehoods about the use of a so called sound cannon at the student protest in Belgrade.

The request follows a 36 page analysis from the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office, which concludes that no LRAD type sound device, or anything similar, was used on March 15. Markovic said the prosecution had reviewed roughly 70 recordings from social media, city cameras and the media, and determined, in his account, that the sound heard on the disputed footage had been added afterward. He also said the Republic Seismological Institute had not recorded any unusual sound that day. According to Markovic, 151 citizens contacted the prosecution reporting health problems, of whom 38 submitted no medical documentation, and the documentation that was submitted, he said, does not point to serious acute trauma. That assessment came from Markovic himself, not from the lawyers who have criticized the prosecution’s work.

Markovic also told RTS that the prosecution’s work was entering a second phase.

We are not stopping here. Regardless of the fact that we have gathered a body of evidence, analyzed it and reached the conclusions we presented, now comes the second part, and that is the criminal liability of those who committed these criminal offenses.

He said the offenses in question are crimes against the constitutional order, including incitement to its violent overthrow.

Miljus rejected Markovic’s assessment in a statement addressed to both the public and the prosecution, and offered to testify in person.

Instead of using RTS to convince people that they should believe him and Vucic rather than their own eyes and ears, and threatening to arrest citizens who were targeted by the sound weapon attack, I am calling on Miodrag Markovic, deputy chief public prosecutor, to hear me out, because I personally witnessed everything that happened on the night of March 15.

The European Serbia candidate added the following.

Markovic now has two options: either hear me out and inform the public of the facts, or admit who ordered him to make citizens out to be crazy.

Miljus also said that if power changes hands, the Security Intelligence Agency (BIA), which he accuses of targeting government critics, would be disbanded, and that everyone involved in the events of March 15 would answer before what he called an independent judiciary.

Lawyers following the case also spoke to Nova.rs the same day. Jovan Rajic called the prosecution’s analysis unconvincing.

Rajic also assessed the impact of Markovic’s threats.

If the goal was to once again and further intimidate everyone who talks about this topic, I don’t think they have frightened anyone.

Lawyer Vladimir Terzic said the prosecution’s decision to halt further action does not mean the case is closed for good.

If there is no final court ruling that would constitute a procedural obstacle, the emergence of new facts and evidence can open the door to renewed action by the prosecution.

Terzic added that citizens should preserve all documentation and evidence, since an independent prosecution service might one day examine what has not been investigated so far. Lawyer Nikola Lakic went further in his assessment of the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office.

The Belgrade Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office works exclusively in the interest of the criminal regime in power, not in the interest of legality.

Lakic also pointed to the timing of the analysis’s release, saying it is no coincidence that it coincides with the pre election campaign.

Srpske vesti previously reported the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office conclusion that no sound cannon was used at the March 15 protest. Miljus’s request now puts the prosecution in front of a choice: question him and lay out the facts publicly, or leave the request unanswered. Whether Markovic will receive Miljus as a witness at all, and when, the prosecution has not said.