Just before the silent delivery of mail on Slavija ended, a specific thump was heard, a distinctly penetrating and unpleasant sound. The people looked at each other - what now? Did something bad happen again?
The last moments of silence on Vidovdan in Slavia, during the tribute to the victims of the fall of the canopy. Something rumbled, a sudden and shrill sound broke out. Very intense, which makes you turn in the opposite direction. For a moment unbearable.
In the eyes of people on protest one could see insecurity, but also fear. They frantically began to huddle together, grab each other's hands, look around.
Isn't it?
"What is happening, it's not happening again." sound cannon?" said one girl and covered her ears with her hands, as hard as she could. The sound was so intense that it forced her to resist.
"I can't believe it," she added.
She wasn't the only one. The woman next to her pushed herself up and moaned softly.
"Ugh, no," she muttered sadly, and the man next to her grabbed her hands, believing that at least that would provide her with security.
All these scenes happened in just a few moments, but they were so intense that the subjective feeling was - that they lasted for minutes.
Relieved
It quickly turned out that everything was fine, after all. Nothing special happened, but probably only from one part of the city the silence ended a moment earlier. And the fear of using sonic weapons has crept into the bones of many.
What people heard was a human roar and the intense sound of whistles. As the sound wave was strong and people were obviously in fear, the whole event took on an incredible scenario.
"It's fine, man," says the woman's friend, who could see absolute chills in her eyes, when she realized that everything was fine.
When asked by the "Vremena" reporter what they were afraid of, she answered:
"How come, last time we were also outside when the sound cannon was fired. We weren't, luckily we were close so we didn't feel it, but this is how I imagined it."
For days, the journalists of "Vremen" also listened to and watched recordings from March 15, when during the largest protest in the country's history, a large number of people in Kralja Milana Street felt something. Later it turned out that it could have been something sound cannon, a weapon that, again it turned out, is owned by the MUP of Serbia. Despite thousands of testimonies from people, footage of a crowd that seemed to be thrown aside by an inexplicable force, and visits to doctors due to dizziness, disorientation and pain - the state still claims that it did not use any sonic weapons.
However, the question is whether the people believe them. That this is probably not the case is shown by this reaction and the fear in people's eyes in the last moments of silence. Because it was at that time that those gathered on March 15 felt what has not yet been explained.
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