Surprised 15 minutes of silence during protests in Belgrade's eyes BBC journalists – BBC News in Serbian

A few seconds of clean panic, general chaos and fear.

The memory of Giba and changes under pressure from subsequent information and explanations.

The pair of scenes remains imprinted.

Saturday, 15. March, seven evenings passed.

I try to catch a couple of staff at the Student Cultural Center, surrounded by King Milan and Resavske, surrounded by people who pay homage to the victims in Novi Sad during the Great Protest.

None of where the sound. It is as if the circuits in full speed go down the resaves. But from a distance.

Emergency, the first thought.

No, there's no siren. Someone flew up by car, next.

I see a couple of people in front of me spreading hands and remonstrate gathered from the street. Everyone instinctively moves towards the sidewalk.

It's a lot of us and it's impossible to take a step. I was scared.

I turn to a yellow building of the Student Cultural Center – it takes me only a few meters away.

The mass carries me for a moment, but I climb the elevation of SKC, where there are more people standing.

Just not to stay without a sneaker, it's the only thing I think about while I swear and push my leg so I kind of keep her.

What happened, the women standing on the elevation next to SKC asks me.

I spread my hands and the only thing I can get out is, « I don't have a notion. »

After several media publications and social media, sound cannon was used during the 15-minute silence, the Ministry of Interior denied that it used it.

« Using this sound weapon is not in accordance with the law, » the MUP stated for Television N1.

Some NGOs, such as the Belgrade Center for Human Rights, called for people who were « at the moment of firing the so-called sound stroke for 15 minutes of silence and who suffered any injuries. »

The only symptom I had last night when I littered to bed was whistling in my ears and echoing the shout « Pump ». It happened to me before.

Fifteen-minute silence 15. Marta in Belgrade was not like other and before the general panic.

At least not in the place where I stood.

While people at previous gatherings gave posted to Stradals, I had the impression that everyone was drowning at the same time in general that they would pour out after 15 minutes with noise and whistles.

Last night, in King Milan, the shouts from Far was at moments. They sounded aggressive.

One motorist was trying to go through the column as the gathered shouted to him to turn off the engine and stopped.

It was nervous. One guy sat on the ground. I don't know what happened to him when the general runaway started.

Hundreds of hastily descended from Resavska to Nemanjina and further towards the train station.

Colleagues Jelena Subin and Predrag Vujic, meanwhile, they said students – they remove violence, there was violence and this is no longer their protest, they retreat to colleges.

They also arrive about conflicts in the Pioneering Park, where the group was called themselves students 2.0.

In front of the Faculty of Economics, a Megafone calls a colleague to enter the courtyard and the building.

Show the index first, speak.

I continue towards Branko's bridge, there I meet with a colleague deer, but also hundreds of others who want to reach the other side of the river at the same time.

If Stampedo starts on the bridge, only to jump, we think at the same moment and return to Gazela, we come to New Belgrade.

For the next three hours walk towards Zemun.

« Literally all I know have gone to a protest. Usually people seek excuses. Now everyone went « , we hear a girl telling a man by my side while they're bypassing me.

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