Fans paid to disrupt Italy-Serbia match

Two fugitive chiefs of criminal gangs paid more than 200,000 euros to football fans whose rioting forced the cancellation of Serbia's Euro 2012 qualifying match against Italy earlier this week, a newspaper reported on Saturday.

"More than 200,000 euros had been paid to more than 60 hooligans for organisation, trip, getting equipment and rioting," the pro-government Politika daily said, quoting a source close to the probe.