Vucevic: We are ready to request FBI-FSB probe into alleged use of sound cannon

BELGRADE - Serbia's caretaker PM Milos Vucevic said on Monday the Serbian government was ready to send an official invitation to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) to come to Serbia to conduct a probe into false accusations that Serbian police had used an illegal device during Saturday's protest in Belgrade.

"We are not hiding anything, we are ready to send an official invitation to both the FBI and the FSB to come to Serbia to verify all those allegations and facts," Vucevic told a press conference.

"That lie must be exposed completely," he noted.

"There was no sound cannon in the streets of Belgrade, and no sound cannon was used by the Serbian police or any other state authority of Serbia," he noted.

The Serbian police taught other European police forces and many others in the world a lesson on how to control, without using force, a gathering of that many people, including "participants who had a desire to provoke incidents," Vucevic added.

"We must not leave a millimeter of space there for doubts, for secrets and for narratives that there is no smoke without fire. There is neither smoke nor fire, because none of what they say has happened. We will not stop this until we fully expose all facts, all items, and until you see it was all fabricated and false with the aim of carrying out a coloured revolution in Serbia," he said.

He also said the fact there had been no attacks on institutions during the protest was the most important thing.

"Evidently, the state authorities took good preventive action, above all, the Novi Sad separatist group that was preparing terrorist acts was exposed, and the gathering essentially passed peacefully," Vucevic said.