They were seen talking, then getting into the large Mercedes SUV parked two meters from the lake, in the parking area at the end of Geno Avenue in Como, a panoramic and romantic spot, where tourists take selfies and couples stop to look at the lake. Then the car immediately started forward, determined. In a matter of moments: the SUV went up on the sidewalk, tore out a stone bench, broke through the railing and plunged into the black, icy and windy lake. There the Lario is immediately deep and reaches about twenty meters: the Mercedes sank and the two people on board died, trapped. It was 11 o’clock last night.
The victims Tiziana Tozzo and Morgan Algeri
The bodies of Tiziana Tozzo, 45 years old from Cantù (Como), and the driver, Morgan Algeri, 38 years old from Brembate Sopra (Bergamo), were recovered this morning by the fire brigade divers. Last night the rescuers arrived as soon as possible, the firefighters with the dinghy and torches on a rough lake due to strong wind, but there was no way to dive so deep. Divers were needed, but they are based in Turin, 170 kilometers away and two hours by car. It was up to them to recover the bodies, in the early hours of the morning. Morgan Algeri was a pilot of the Caravaggio (Bergamo) flight school and from social profiles his passions for diving activities and motorcycling clearly emerge; of Tiziana Tozzo there are instead selfies and photos of the teenage son.
Accident, error, illness or voluntary act: the hypotheses
Whether their death was the consequence of a tragic accident, an error, an illness or even a voluntary act (which at the level of hypothesis cannot be excluded) it is difficult to determine at this time: there are no cameras in the square, last night it was cold and windy, so at that time there were no passers-by.
There were only two boys who, incredulous, told the police what they saw, but they were not very precise about what happened before the car’s flight. They saw the two talking and getting into the car, with Algeri at the wheel, and ending up in the lake. Now it will be the police, through the reconstruction of the relationships between the victims and then on the basis of the technical findings on the car ended up in the lake – and recovered during the day – to probably give some answers about the causes. Yesterday night’s tragedy recalls that of a few days ago in Piona, always on Lake Como but in the province of Lecco, where a car fell into the lake from a height of 40 meters, causing the driver’s death and injuring two other people. Even if in that case there are no doubts about the causes: it would have been a tragic error, due to the driver’s unfamiliarity with the automatic transmission.