Vita gazette – Those who died in the sunken boat in the lake in Italy were secret service agents. Two Italian secret service agents, a retired Israeli security guard agent and a Russian woman, died in a boat that sank in a lake in Italy last weekend.

Despite the bad weather last weekend, some tourists took a boat tour of Lake Maggiore. They were about to celebrate one of their birthdays. The boat was for 15 people; their number was 24. And at the end of the storm, the ship capsized. Four people died. One of them was the captain’s Russian wife.

According to the allegations in the press, about 20 intelligence agents were on board the boat, which sank after adverse weather conditions. The reason they were together was for a birthday party.

The 8 Italian secret agents and the 13 Israelis of the Mossad on board the boat sunk in Lake Maggiore stayed in a hotel near Malpensa airport. The convivial occasion was the birthday of one of the 007 Israelis who survived the shipwreck.

Whether it was a birthday party or not, what they did before getting on the boat capsized by the force of the wind and why it will not be investigated. Nor have the autopsies of the four victims of the houseboat sinking on Lake Maggiore been ordered. The inspection of the corpse by the coroner confirmed the absence of signs of violence and the hypothesis of drowning. The Busto Arsizio prosecutor’s office focuses only on the accident, and the dossier for shipwreck and manslaughter is no longer against unknown persons. However, Carlo Carminati, the 53-year-old owner of the tourist boat, has been entered into the register of suspects. Carminati, skipper of the ship and companion of Anya Bozhkova, who died in the overturning of the boat, will have to demonstrate that he has complied with all navigation rules, taking into account any weather warnings and that the safety of passengers on board was guaranteed.

The rest is that the crew consisted entirely of exponents of Israeli intelligence, in the majority, over a dozen, and Italians, apart from Anja Bozhkova, a Russian citizen, and her husband, Commander Claudio Carminati. She died wedged inside the boat during the storm, where the firefighters found her, he survived, and in the next few hours, he will also be investigated as his guarantee because technical checks will be carried out, such as autopsies and analyses on the boat to which he can participate with his lawyer. The crimes that should be hypothesised by the deputy prosecutor Massimo De Filippo are shipwreck and murder, both with negligence. In addition to the Russian woman, Claudio Alonzi and Tiziana Barnobi, from Italian intelligence, and Shimoni Erez, a former Israeli security man, are not spared.

The issues are those of the safety of the boat, the more or less regular capacity, the sky that had darkened, and perhaps he could and should have advised Carminati of other manoeuvres and prudence. There is no confirmation of the possible proximity of the latter to secret service environments. In the village, they remember that in the past, he opened a launderette and then invented himself, building the boat for tourists with his own hands, perhaps without the certifications to do it safely. Indeed, such several 007 gathered on a 15-metre boat could have chosen at least a trusted person as a companion.

The first reconstruction of the events led to the hypothesis that the two women, Tiziana Barnobi and Anya Bozhkova, were trapped, seeking refuge in the hold. While Claudio Alonzi and Shimoni Erez, a former member of the Israeli security forces and former Mossad, would not have been able to swim after falling or throwing themselves into the lake’s waters. Confirmation arrived from Tel Aviv that Erez “had been in the Mossad”, while previously, it had only been published that he was a pensioner of the security forces. But the man’s name, as reported by the Israeli media, was not disclosed because the censorship forbade it. For the Israelis, his identity, therefore, remains secret. At the same time, the Undersecretary disclosed the names of the Italian victims to Prime Minister Alfredo Mantovano.

The recovery operations of the wreck, which sank to a depth of 16 meters, have yet to be successful. Examining the latter will be essential for the direction of the investigation. On Monday, after running aground, the boat remained stranded, while on Tuesday, after a new attempt, it sank a few meters again. On Wednesday, if the third attempt by the Fire Brigade specialists proves to be in vain, the use of a particular crane will be evaluated.