What really happened on the secret agents’ boat sunk on Lake Maggiore?

23 people on a boat that could carry 15, belonging to secret services e intelligence of Italy and Israel. The story of the boat that sank on the Lake Maggiore Sunday 28 May which at the beginning seemed like a tragedy to be told in the news has become a spy story.
The skipper Claudio Carminati, 60 years old, is being investigated for manslaughter and shipwreck by the Public Prosecutor of Busto Arsizio. He was the one driving the house boat, a sort of 15-metre floating platform which was on the lake after the scheduled return time and which sank in the storm that broke out with gusts of over 70 kilometers per hour.

Four victims including the skipper’s wife, Anna Bozhkova, 50, Russian, with an unlimited time residence permit, reports the Corriere della Sera which also has the man’s story: “Thirty seconds, then the apocalypse descended, the boat immediately overturned and we fell into the water”. He told investigators that bad weather was not forecast. The other victims are Tiziana Barnobi and Claudio Alonzi, aged 53 and 62, members of the Italian secret services and the Mossad agent, officially no longer active, Shimoni Erez, 53. For all, drowning was indicated as the cause of death, even if no autopsies were performed.

Here the news ends and the hypotheses begin on what a boat full of secret agents was doing on Lake Maggiore. There are those who talk about a pleasure trip after a day’s work, there are those who, this is the thesis reported by Messenger, it was not a reunion between colleagues, but a real working meeting, obviously secret, between Italians and Israelis 007. The immediate disappearance of the survivors of the shipwreck also supports it: the Israelis were taken away by plane that arrived in Milan the same day and there would also be no documentation of who was treated. No element allows to reveal their identity or their movements.

The boat, which is 16 meters deep and 150 meters from the coast, has not yet been brought ashore. What can be left on board? If there were intelligence documents, state secrecy could be invoked. The skipper’s nautical license should also be on board who, as noted by some newspapers, speaks Bulgarian.

Even if it was just a moment of leisure (for many it is difficult to imagine meetings of secret agents a short distance from a very busy shore and in the light of day) all the lodgings, contacts and covers that these agents could have had were still burned. area. The province of Varese it is a stone’s throw from Switzerland and Milan, Malpensa airport is here. According to experts, it was no coincidence that it was a logistical base for intelligence, more difficult to imagine for those who have only seen stories of spies in films.