Carme Chacón, Zapatero's defence minister, dies aged 46
Monday, April 10, 2017 @ 1:58 PM
FORMER defence minister Carme Chacón has been found dead by a female friend in her Madrid home.
She was just 46 years old.
Sra Chacón became the first female minister of defence in 2008 and attracted criticism for her president, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, when she famously walked on the front line in Afghanistan whilst heavily pregnant.
A year before her defence role, she had served as minister for housing in 2007 under the then socialist government.
Her young son was with his dad, Carme's ex-husband Miguel Barroso, at the time of her death.
She had just come back from Madrid from Miami and was due to meet a group of people for lunch on Sunday, but did not turn up.
When her friends were unable to reach her, they rang the 112 emergency hotline at around 19.30 and police and firefighters broke into her house.
She was last seen in public at a tribute in the Council of Ministers for her predecessor under Zapatero, José Antonio Alonso, who died from lung cancer on February 2.
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