{"id":"SRB-105","notes":"This fits the established Serbian doctrine of converting accountability crises into evidence of foreign-backed plots, now matured into prosecutorial action against named student structures. The new element is the use of seized university documents to build a criminal 'violent overthrow of constitutional order' case against the protest movement's organizational infrastructure.","country":"Serbia","sources":[{"url":"https://www.kurir.rs/vesti/politika/10027191/ovako-je-vucic-govorio-o-zvucnom-topu?utm_source=kurir\u0026utm_medium=single_dontmiss\u0026utm_campaign=adria_internal","citation":"https://www.kurir.rs/vesti/politika/10027191/ovako-je-vucic-govorio-o-zvucnom-topu?utm_source=kurir\u0026utm_medium=single_dontmiss\u0026utm_campaign=adria_internal"}],"summary":"Serbian state-aligned tabloid Kurir published coordinated content amplifying President Vučić's claims that the March 2025 'sonic weapon' incident against protesters was a fabricated 'colour revolution' operation planned by the student movement. The prosecution announced that documents seized during a search of the Faculty of Philosophy reveal a January 2025 student security working group meeting allegedly planning to simulate sonic weapon use to provoke civil war and a violent overthrow of constitutional order.","tactics":[{"code":"TC-53","role":"primary","label":"Retroactive Forensic Reframing","needs_review":false},{"code":"TC-17","role":"secondary","label":"Narrative-to-Institutional Operationalization","needs_review":false}],"version":1,"channels":["Presidential press statement","Prosecution announcement","State television","Tabloid media"],"entities":[{"id":1035,"name":"President Aleksandar Vučić, Belgrade Higher Public Prosecutor's Office, State-captured media (Kurir, TV Prva), Senior officials (Ana Brnabić, Miloš Vučević, ministers Gašić, Selaković)","role":"actor","entity_type":"Head of State, State-Captured Media, Prosecutor, Government Official"},{"id":1036,"name":"Student protest movement (Students in Blockade / security working group), Independent media (N1 referenced), Civil society linked to protests","role":"target","entity_type":"Student movement; Civil society organization; Independent media"}],"date_text":"Mid-2026 (referencing prosecution findings from documents seized 27 March 2026, related to March 2025 events)","created_at":"2026-09-24T17:50:55.358311+00:00","escalation":4,"harm_track":"Criminalization; Chilling effect on student/civic mobilization","narratives":[{"code":"LEGACY-N-4f79d3eee13b","role":"primary","label":"Destabilization Agent / Colour Revolution","needs_review":true},{"code":"LEGACY-N-63f811d168b8","role":"secondary","label":"Foreign Mercenary / Identity Betrayal","needs_review":true}],"report_ids":[],"signal_ids":[],"updated_at":"2026-09-24T17:50:55.358311+00:00","occurred_on":null,"campaign_ids":["SRB-CAMP-014"],"enabler_type":"","response_ids":[],"trigger_type":"Prosecution announcement of new findings derived from documentation seized during a search of the Faculty of Philosophy, reframing the protest-era sonic weapon accountability claim as a student-orchestrated plot. — Accountability crisis — the March 15 sonic weapon incident demanding state accountability","campaign_phase":"Administrative Enforcement","civic_response":"Student movement publicly denied the allegations; journalists' associations documented the pattern","date_precision":"unknown","enabler_status":"","campaigns_served":[],"consequence_category":"","institutional_consequence":"Criminal investigation framing protest organizers as plotting violent change of constitutional order; prosecution narrative placed on record; documents seized from university working group."}
