In Spain, they intercept a letter with two projectiles …

The Spanish Post Service intercepted a letter containing bullets and was addressed to the regional president of Madrid, the curator Isabel Díaz Ayuso. This was reported by the Spanish government on Tuesday, after similar threats were sent to Podemos chief Pablo Iglesias and Pedro Sánchez government officials in recent days. These letters were sent in the midst of the campaign for the Community of Madrid elections on May 4, during which Díaz Ayuso hopes to gain enough support to return to rule the richest region of the country.

On this occasion, Correos checks detected the bullets in Barcelona ahead of the envelope’s arrival in Madrid. The packet was sent without a sender and the type of shells is still unknown, and whether they contained any messages. At the same time, Correos detected in Vallecas, a district in the south of Madrid, another “letter which was addressed to the General Directorate of the Civil Guard and which would contain four projectiles”informed the entity by a statement.

Candidate for the regional elections in Madrid, Pablo Iglesias showed his “most absolute condemnation” of what happened and assured that “in the face of violence, there is no but, no excuses, no of bullets ”. For his part, President Pedro Sánchez denounced the threats directed against Díaz Ayuso and maintained that there will be “neither tolerant nor accomplice of violence and the propagation of hatred”.

At the end of last week Pablo Iglesias, the interior minister of the socialist government, Fernando Grande Marlaska, and the head of the Civil Guard, María Gámez, received letters of death threats containing rifle bullets. In these cases, the letters reached their recipients.

Monday, the Minister of Tourism Reyes maroto rHe received another letter containing a razor, but later authorities said it was sent by a man with mental health problems.. In a context of strong political polarization in Spain, threats triggered the Madrid campaign.

Last Friday Iglesias, who left the Sánchez government, where he held the vice-presidency, to participate in the Madrid elections, left a radio debate when far-right party candidate Vox questioned the veracity of the threats. On Tuesday, the Socialists called for a “cordon sanitaire” in Vox to prevent it from reaching the Madrid government, while polls Díaz Ayuso might need the support of the far right to come back to rule.