Why were 21 Italian and Israeli intelligence on the Gooduria when it sank in a freak storm and left four people dead? Almost two weeks on, ‘crazy’ speculation is rife
A metal bracket poking out of the water of Lake Maggiore near the “OK” campsite is now the only visible sign of the sunken pleasure boat that took four passengers to their graves and sparked an international spy mystery.
Watching from outside his tent while grilling sausages, Marco, a call centre operator from Germany, said: “My children have been watching people trying and failing to raise that boat for days.”
It was the ignominious end to a saga involving a skipper caught out by a freak storm on an Italian lake and suggestions that the Italian and Israeli spies on board his boat were on a mission to stop Iran building nuclear missiles.
