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2025 Belgrade stampede

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... that people caught in the 2025 Belgrade stampede experienced a frightening aural sensation, leading to an accusation that the government used a sonic weapon against them?

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- Vasovic, Aleksandar; Pavicic, Milan (2 April 2025). "Mystery sound at Serbia protest sparks sonic weapon allegations". Reuters. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
- "'Like a sound from hell:' Was an illegal sonic weapon used on protesters in Serbia?". NPR. The Associated Press. 26 March 2025. Retrieved 4 April 2025. It was "a subdued sound lasting only 2-3 seconds but very unusual and very frightening, like a sound from hell," she said.
  Ilic Sunderic was not alone in describing the panic. Hundreds of others have offered similar accounts, triggering accusations that the police, military or security services under the tight control of authoritarian Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic used an acoustic crowd control weapon to target peaceful protesters.
- Manojlovic, Mila; Tizard, Will (18 March 2025). "Was A Sonic Weapon Used On Student Protesters In Serbia?". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Retrieved 6 April 2025. Student demonstrators who gathered in Belgrade on March 15 were panicked by a loud, strange sound some described as "creepy."
- Sečić, Erik (15 March 2025). "Jeziv zvuk razbio tišinu u Beogradu, pogledajte uznemirujuću snimku: 'Strašno, ovo je terorizam'" [Terrifying Sound Shattered the Silence in Belgrade—Watch the Disturbing Footage: 'Horrific, This Is Terrorism']. Net.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 6 April 2025. Dok su okupljeni odavali počast žrtvama pada nadstrešnice u Novom Sadu, muk i tišinu razbio je zastrašujući zvuk koji je uplašio prosvjednike. [While the crowd gathered to pay tribute to the victims of the canopy collapse in Novi Sad, the stillness and silence were shattered by a frightening sound that startled the protesters.]

ALT1: ... that in the aftermath of the Agence France Presse. 29 March 2025. Retrieved 6 April 2025.
"'Like a sound from hell:' Was an illegal sonic weapon used on protesters in Serbia?"

. NPR. The Associated Press. 26 March 2025. Retrieved 4 April 2025. Ivana Ilic Sunderic had never heard anything quite so alarming and disturbing at a protest as the sound that broke a commemorative silence during a huge anti-government rally in Serbia's capital, Belgrade.