They were arrested immediately after they entered Serbia and two more buses transporting fans back from the Italian port were being searched, Ivica Dacic told Serbia's B92 television.
Serbian police have arrested 19 suspects involved in the rioting that led to the abandonment of Serbia's Euro 2012 qualifier against Italy in Genoa, the Interior Minister said on Thursday.
They were arrested immediately after they entered Serbia and two more buses transporting fans back from the Italian port were being searched, Ivica Dacic told Serbia's B92 television.
Italian police arrested 17 fans, including the ringleader of Serbia''s rioters, after Tuesday''s Group C match between hosts Italy and Serbia was first delayed for 45 minutes and then abandoned after seven minutes were played.
Having attacked their own goalkeeper before the match in an incident related to domestic club rivalry, Serbian fans threw flares on to the pitch and at Italian supporters in the Luigi Ferraris stadium.
The violence in Genoa came two days after a mass riot in Serbia''s capital Belgrade, where hooligans clashed with riot police in an attempt to disrupt a gay parade.
Political analysts in Serbia believe that incident involved a number of soccer fans affiliated with far-right groups.
Dacic did not rule out that the events were linked but added that there was not enough evidence to suggest they were perpetrated by the same culprits.
"These events are complementary and come from the same social background but there is not enough information that they were organised by the same people," Dacic told B92.
Serbian soccer has been rife with violence over the past 20 years, with clashes between rival fans resulting in several deaths and hundreds if not thousands of serious injuries.
Belgrade derbies between Red Star and Partizan have been at the core of the problem and riot police are likely to be deployed in numbers when the two teams meet in a league fixture on Oct 23.
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