Red Star Belgrade supporters display tifo of war criminal Ratko Mladić before local derby

Supporters of Serbian side Red Star Belgrade displayed a tifo of convicted war criminal Ratko Mladić before and during their SuperLiga match against local rivals Partisan Belgrade on Sunday.

Last week, Red Star were fined €90,000 ($104,500) by UEFA after supporters chanted his name and saluted him during a 5-1 Europa League playoff loss at Viktoria Plzeň on Aug. 27.

Red Star posted a video on X showing silence observed before Sunday's league fixture kicked off, with the tifo depicting Mladić visible in the background.

Mladic was the Bosnian Serb commander who oversaw the massacre of more than 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995 and other war crimes.

Mladić died aged 84 in The Hague, where he was serving a life sentence for genocide and crimes against humanity.

He had been on the run for 16 years before he was arrested in 2011 and ultimately tried at a United Nations tribunal.

On Monday, thousands gathered in Sarajevo as Mladić's funeral was carried out.

Information from the Associated Press contributed to this report.