A sudden storm on an Italian lake capsized a boat and drowned a retired Israeli Mossad agent, two active Italian intelligence agents, and a member of the crew who was Russian

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

Oh yeah - this is one story that I'm sure as hell gonna follow!

 

Lake Maggiore deaths: why were Italian and Israeli secret service agents on a boat in northern Italy? | Italy | The Guardian

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Four died after a vessel carrying 21 passengers – all with links to Italian and Israeli intelligence – capsized, and speculation is growing about the nature of the trip

 

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It reads like a pitch for a thriller.

 

A group of tourists board a boat on a beautiful lake at the foot of the Alps. The boat capsizes in a sudden storm. Four drown as others swim to safety. In the days that follow, as authorities struggle to trace hotel bookings for the passengers, it emerges all were affiliated with the Italian and Israeli secret services.

 

Five days after Gooduria, a 16-metre houseboat, was swallowed up by Lake Maggiore, there is growing speculation over what its passengers were doing in this corner of northern Italy.

 

On Thursday, a police source working on the investigation confirmed that eight of the boat’s 21 passengers either currently or formerly served with Italy’s secret service, and 13 had ties with Israel’s.

 

 

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Reports in the Italian press alleged that the group had met for work reasons, “to exchange information and documents” and that they only stayed on for a couple of days of leisure after the Israelis missed their flights home.

 

One theory, reported by Corriere della Sera, is that the agents were in Lake Maggiore to spy on Russian oligarchs, who have reportedly been buying villas and hotels in the area, circumventing the EU’s financial sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine by funnelling money into Italy from Swiss bank accounts. Another theory is that the Israeli agents were monitoring contacts between Iranian firms and Italian ones based in Lombardy’s industrial zone.

 

The agents who survived the tragedy left the next day. Two business jets were flown from Israel to Milan, according to flight trackers, possibly to swiftly return the surviving Israeli guests.

 

It is unclear where they had been staying as, according to the Italian press, there was no trace of hotel bookings.

 

 

[SuperSpreader]

Is this the flooded level in the second assassin's Creed?

[skillzdadirecta]

Russians have a Weather machine now???

[Spork3245]

6 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said:

Russians have a Weather machine now???

Judging from how weather has bailed them out during major wars, I’d assume “yes”.

[skillzdadirecta]

2 minutes ago, Spork3245 said:

Judging from how weather has bailed them out during major wars, I’d assume “yes”.

Either that or Thor and Storm have some explaining to do 

[Kal-El814]

[CayceG]

How intriguing!

 

Not the boat wreck. That's clearly a combination of bad weather and incompetence. 

But the Italians and the Israelis together on a little sightseeing tour after an unspecified joint training? THAT'S what I'm interested in. What were they corresponding on?

 

 

I think the Russian captain is a mere coincidence. 

[Kal-El814]

18 minutes ago, CayceG said:

I think the Russian captain is a mere coincidence. 

 

 

Okay I'm done shitposting in this thread, apologies.

[Reputator]

Well, that's the entire article in one title.

[unogueen]

Is this a joke.

[marioandsonic]

The title of this thread sounds like to opening to a joke

[TheLeon]

42 minutes ago, marioandsonic said:

The title of this thread sounds like to opening to a joke

It’s what happened after they all walked into a bar.