Four people died on Sunday 29/5 when a tour boat capsized on a lake Maggiore in northern Italy due to a sudden tornado, turned into a thriller as a spy story began to unfold that went beyond the best Hollywood blockbusters.
According to the German newspaper Die Presse, the boat was the meeting place intelligence agents of Italy and Israel.
The stories now published in the Italian media about the shipwreck are like spy thrillers: in the Italian RAI it is referred to as “Mission 007 on a sunken ship”, “Shipwreck 007”, a “secret” spy party with a bad ending.
Of the 21 people on board who were rescued, 8 were associated with the Italian secret serviceseither as active or former officers, while the rest 13 were linked to Israeli intelligence!
victims shipwrecks were 62-year-old Claudio Alonzi and 53-year-old Tiziana Barnobi, Italians, Israeli Shimoni Erez (50 years old) and 50-year-old Russian woman Anna Bozhkova. Bozhkova, while being the wife and partner of the skipper. Together they founded “Love Lake”, which organizes mini-cruises on the lake on the Amsterdam-registered boat “Good Uria”.
“Good Uria” before the tragic events
The boat made an excursion to the Borromean Islands, the sights of the notorious lake. She then stops for lunch at Psara Island. On the evening of Sunday 29/5, on the way back, a violent storm capsizes it.
Five days after the waters of Lake Maggiore swallowed the “Good Uria”, a 16-meter tourist boat, there is still no answer to the question, what actually did those who were on board.
Italian press reports claim that the group made an appointment at Lake Maggiore for work purposes, “to exchange information and documents”, and that they were in the area for several days under the “pretext” that they were engaged in tourism, while for the Israelis to attend in the mini-cruise was due to the fact that they allegedly missed their flights to Israel.
According to Corriere della Seraone of the versions is gaining strength, according to which the agents were on Lake Maggiore to spy behind the Russian oligarchswho recently allegedly bought villas and hotels in the area, circumventing economic sanctions EU against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine by funneling money to Italy from Swiss bank accounts.
According to another version, Israeli agents tracked contacts between Iranian companies and Italian companies located in the industrial zone of Lombardy.
Rescuers explore the sunken boat “Good Uria”
An interesting point noted in the Italian reports concerns the fact that no bookings were found in hotels in the area in the names of victims or survivors.
Chronicle of events
A group of sightseers are waiting to board the tourist yacht of the “Love Lake” company, which organizes mini-cruises in the picturesque surroundings of the Alpine Lake Maggiore. They are going to celebrate the birthday of a friend who is a link. Soon after, the yacht capsizes due to bad weather. Four of the twenty-five people on board drown.
One of them can’t even swim. The rest will be able to swim to shore. From this moment begins the inexplicable activity of the Italian and Israeli intelligence services.
A senior Italian intelligence officer quickly announces the names of the two Italians and offers his condolences to their families. The police investigation into the causes of the tragedy, which began on the night of the sinking, considers only the role of the captain, but does not clarify the origin of the agents and the reasons for their presence in the area.
Skipper “Good Uria” Claudio Carmignati and his wife Anna Bozhkova
They set the name of the skipper. Claudio Carmignati is experienced and knows the lake well. Questions arise: Why did he take 25 people aboard his relatively small 15-seat boat? Why didn’t he take into account the weather forecast? And besides, why was he accompanied on such a day by a Russian wife who couldn’t swim?
It should also be added that Lake Maggiore is considered a traditional meeting place for the special services of Italy and Switzerland. The Lombardy region as a whole is of great interest to spies of all stripes, because it is a region where high technology is produced.
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