Spain intercepted a threatening letter sent to former Prime Minister Zapatero with two bullets

Spain’s Interior Ministry confirmed on April 28th, local time, that the post office in the capital, Madrid, had intercepted a threatening letter with two bullets from former Spanish Prime Minister Maria Zapatero, and that the post office’s security system had informed Spain’s national security services of the situation.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, a former leader of Spain’s Workers’ Socialist Party, won a general election in March 2004 and became Spain’s prime minister, winning re-election in 2008.

Zapatero renounced his re-election in 2011 because of Spain’s deteriorating economic situation and officially stepped down as prime minister on December 21, 2011.