Peaceful rallies of support were organised in Mostar, Livno, and central Bosnia, with a large number of war victims and volunteers joining a rally at the waterfront in the southern Croatian city of Split.
Associations gathering the families of soldiers who went missing or were killed in the war, war veterans and volunteers criticised Croatian authorities for having been passive in the period between the issuing of the indictment against Gotovina and his arrest, claiming that more should have been done to protect the Homeland War, which they said was now being criminalised.
Bosnian Croat political parties unanimously condemned Gotovina's arrest. Posters with Gotovina's photo appeared in Mostar, Siroki Brijeg and other municipalities, with a number of majority Croat municipalities expressing support for the general.