- summary
- Kurir and other state-aligned outlets published a coordinated wave of articles claiming the March 15, 2025 'sonic weapon' incident against protesters was a pre-planned fabrication by civil society group Eko straža designed to portray President Vučić as a tyrant and incite civil war. The campaign uses a social media post by Eko straža as supposed proof of premeditation, with multiple senior officials (Selaković, Brnabić, Vučević, Mrdić) amplifying the narrative, and Vučić scheduled for an exclusive three-television broadcast to 'expose the lies.'
- country
- Serbia
- date text
- June 2026 (referencing March 15, 2025 incident)
- entities
- Aleksandar Vučić (President), Ana Brnabić, Nebojša Selaković, Miloš Vučević, Uglješa Mrdić, Kurir and state-aligned media, three coordinated television channels
- entity type
- State-Captured Media, Head of State, Government Official
- id
- 1033
- name
- Aleksandar Vučić (President), Ana Brnabić, Nebojša Selaković, Miloš Vučević, Uglješa Mrdić, Kurir and state-aligned media, three coordinated television channels
- role
- actor
- Eko straža (environmental civic group), civil society / protest movement broadly, independent media outlets including N1
- id
- 1034
- name
- Eko straža (environmental civic group), civil society / protest movement broadly, independent media outlets including N1
- role
- target
- Aleksandar Vučić (President), Ana Brnabić, Nebojša Selaković, Miloš Vučević, Uglješa Mrdić, Kurir and state-aligned media, three coordinated television channels
- sources
- tactics
- Retroactive Forensic Reframing
- label
- Retroactive Forensic Reframing
- code
- TC-53
- needs review
- false
- role
- primary
- Coordinated Media Amplification
- label
- Coordinated Media Amplification
- code
- TC-06
- needs review
- false
- role
- secondary
- Retroactive Forensic Reframing
- narratives
- Destabilization agent / color revolution — civic actors fabricated the sonic weapon to overthrow the state and incite civil war
- label
- Destabilization agent / color revolution — civic actors fabricated the sonic weapon to overthrow the state and incite civil war
- code
- LEGACY-N-eba51fb3fc09
- needs review
- true
- role
- primary
- Destabilization agent / color revolution — civic actors fabricated the sonic weapon to overthrow the state and incite civil war
- campaign ids
- created at
- 2026-09-24T17:50:55.358311+00:00
- date precision
- unknown
- escalation
- 3
- id
- SRB-104
- institutional consequence
- None documented yet — narrative phase, but officials place civic group on record as orchestrating an attempted state overthrow; pre-broadcast coordination signals possible enforcement to follow.
- notes
- This fits the established Serbian doctrine of converting state suppression incidents into evidence of a civic-led conspiracy, with synchronized presidential, parliamentary, and ministerial authorization amplified across captured media. The new element is the retroactive forensic framing — using a civic group's own social media post as 'proof of premeditation' to reverse responsibility for a documented attack on protesters. | Tactic note (TC-06): with accountability suppression / inverted burden of proof
- trigger type
- The sonic weapon incident of March 15, 2025 against protesters and the sustained accountability pressure it generated — the state is retroactively reframing a documented crowd-suppression incident as a foreign-orchestrated fabrication.
- updated at
- 2026-09-24T17:50:55.358311+00:00
- version
- 1
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