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		</div><p>Serbian police have raided the stadiums of the country’s two biggest football clubs after arresting 17 people linked to fan groups accused of organised crime, drug trafficking and murder.</p>
<p>Heavily armed riot police ordered all those working at the neighbouring Partizan and Red Star stadiums in Belgrade to leave the premises and training was suspended while offices were searched.</p>
<p>Police said that those arrested “hid behind” a Partizan supporter group but are “responsible for a series of most monstrous crimes” committed over the past 10 years.</p>
<p>“These are not soccer fans, these are criminals,” police commander Ninoslav Cmolic said.</p>
<p>Serbian media reported that Partizan fan leader Veljko Belivuk was among those detained overnight.</p>
<p>Belivuk, also known as Velja Nevolja or Velja the Trouble, was often linked to criminal activity but reportedly managed to stay free because of his connections with politicians.</p>
<p>Belivuk, who had been charged but never sentenced for the murder of a rival Red Star fan at a Belgrade nightclub in 2015, was reportedly arrested as he tried to burn a car used in recent “criminal activity”.</p>
<p>Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin said Serbia “is a serious country which will not tolerate another creation of a criminal clan which thinks it is stronger than the state”.</p>
<p>More than a dozen prominent figures from the country’s football supporters’ groups have been murdered in recent years. Most have died in gangland-style killings.</p>
<p>Serbia has a history of tolerating hooliganism that often resulted in violence and nationalistic outbursts at stadiums.</p>
<p>During the Balkan wars in the 1990s, many of them joined notorious paramilitary groups known for war crimes against other national groups in the former Yugoslavia.</p>
<p>With the return of populists to power in Serbia eight years ago, far-right foobtall supporters were often seen at pro-government rallies pushing some of its nationalist political agenda.</p>
<p>In exchange, analysts say, the hooligans have been allowed to pursue their illegal business activities.</p>
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