Italy: mysterious shipwreck on Lake Maggiore


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Two members of Italian intelligence and a former member of the Israeli security forces are among the four victims of the sinking of a tourist boat.





By Quentin Raverdy

Published by Vigili del Fuoco Press Office, this photo, taken on May 29, shows the recovery operation of the boat whose sinking left four dead.
© HANDOUT / VIGILI DEL FUOCO / AFP

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I’history could have remained in the pages of miscellaneous facts: the sinking on May 28, around 7:20 p.m., of a boat trapped in a violent storm on Lake Maggiore (northern Italy), causing four dead. A tragic accident reported well beyond the borders of Lombardy in the press and which did not fail to pique the curiosity of the latter, given the identity of the victims. Alongside the skipper’s wife, a 50-year-old Russian, are also the names of Tiziana Barnobi and Claudio Alonzi, two members of Aise, Italian foreign intelligence, and Shimoni Erez, a 53-year-old retired from the forces Israeli security forces potentially passed through the Mossad.

This Sunday, there would have been about twenty passengers, Israelis and Italians, to board…




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