Jun 5, 2023

In Italy, on Lake Maggiore on May 28, a boat with two dozen special agents on board sank. As a result of the accident, four people died, including a former Mossad agent, a Russian woman and two Italian intelligence officers. This tragedy is reminiscent of the plot of a spy novel and has already given rise to many questions. The BBC writes about it. Lake Maggiore belongs to two Italian regions – Lombardy and Piedmont, as well as to the Swiss canton of Tychino. It is noteworthy that several technology companies are located in Lombardy, developing products, in particular for military purposes. At the same time, Switzerland is considered a “transit” country for intelligence officers. Therefore, there is an opinion that on the boat, where 23 people were present, there was not a birthday party, but a meeting of Italian and Israeli agents. Prosecutor Carlo Nocerino said that in total, there were 13 Italian agents and 8 Israeli agents on board.. According to him, only Captain Claudio Carminati and his Russian wife do not work for any intelligence. A walk on the lake was to be made on a 15-meter boat. At some point, a storm began on the lake with flurries with a speed of up to 70 km / h. “Literally in 30 seconds, the apocalypse began. The ship immediately capsized and we fell into the water,” the captain of the ship said, adding that the storm was not a surprise – it was predicted. Probably, the boat trip was planned so as not to get into a storm, but even after the rental period had passed, the ship continued to sail. Among the dead was the captain’s wife, Anna Bozhkova, a 50-year-old Russian woman who also had a residence permit in Italy. The other two dead, 53-year-old Tiziana Barnobi and 62-year-old Claudio Alonzi, are members of the Italian secret service. Another victim, 50-year-old Shimoni Erez, was a retired Mossad agent. The rest of the boats on board escaped, but disappeared almost immediately after the incident. Shipwrecked on Lake Maggiore has not yet been removed from the water, so a full-fledged investigation into the strange accident cannot begin. The Italian paramilitary police investigating has already said it will only investigate why the boat was overcrowded and why it sailed in bad weather, not what the people on board were doing. Recall that on the morning of February 26, a ship with migrants on board crashed off the coast of Italy. According to preliminary data, at least 58 people died. Earlier it was reported that in the Black Sea off the coast of the Krasnodar Territory of the Russian Federation, the Russian cargo ship Seamark sank with marble chips. It broke in half due to the storm, as the height of the waves in the area of ​​the accident reached three meters. Source: Obozrevatel