The group that he was on the ship that sank this Sunday in Lake Maggiore (northern Italy), and in which four people diedwas made up of agents of the Israeli and Italian secret services who had gathered for a celebration.

The authority delegated to the Information Security Services of Italy, Alfredo Mantovano, expressed his regret on Monday for the death of Claudio Alonzi, 62, and Tiziana Barboni, 53, both members of the Italian secret services who were in boat “to celebrate the birthday of one of the group”according to a note.

The Israeli Shimoni Erez, 50 years old and a retired Mossad agent, also died, as confirmed by the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, which explained that the “Israeli consul in Rome, together with the Department of Israelis Abroad of the Ministry, they are working to bring the body to israel“, quoted by the Italian media.

The fourth victim is Anya Bozhkova, a Russian national and wife of the owner of the boat, who rented it out to tourists. The rest of the passengers on board the ship They were also Italian and Israeli and with total security there were other members of the secret services, according to local media.

The boat, in which there was a group of 22 people plus the two crew memberssank in the area of ​​Lisanza and Dormelletto, in the Lombardia region, due to a strong storm that caused it to capsize around 7:30 p.m. local time (5:30 p.m. GM) this Sunday and then sank.

All the people ended up in the water: most managed to reach the shore by swimming between the towns of Lisanza and Piccaluga, while others were rescued by boats that were in the area. According to the Italian media that have reconstructed the event, after the accident it began to be suspected that there were more secret service agents on the boat, since none of them left a record of their passage through the towns near the lake.

The newspaper ‘La Repubblica’ reveals that the survivors were heard by the magistrates during Sunday night and then “quickly disappeared” while the Israelis were already back in their country on Monday morning, on a military flight to Tel Aviv, so much so that one of the two vans rented for the trip was parked at the dock.

“Italians were hastily evacuated from emergency rooms and hotels between Sesto Calende and Malpensa, where there is no trace of having spent the night“, adds the newspaper. Now the investigators are concentrating on the reasons for the accident, since the ship only had capacity for 15 people and there were more than 20 and also on the reason why they did not return to the shore when the storm approached.