The helmet of a Malvinas veteran was auctioned in London and his family could not get it back.

The helmet of the Malvinan veteran Miguel Manuel Navarro was sold Saturday morning to more than 700,000 pesos at an online auction site based in London. His family tried to recover the helmet of the former Pucara squadron leader during the 1982 race.

"The auction is over, the helmet has been sold at 12,100 pounds, about 705,000 Argentine pesos, thank you all for the messages of support and the words for my old man.They are worth much more than # 39; a helmet. Thank you! "Announced Verónica Navarro, daughter of the veteran, on his Facebook profile.

A week ago, the daughter of a veteran had shared the story through the same social network. She and her brother, Mauricio, both tried to recover the object so that his father "has a part of this story that hurts him and that has so marked him".

Until this week, the helmet was in a museum in the United Kingdom and had proven itself to the Navarro family when its former owner, Jonathan Colwill, published it. He wrote on the E-bay page that the helmet had reached him. after the widow of a British fighter sold it to him.

The children of the ex-combatant – who live in Córdoba – explained that the situation had "mobilized" them and that is why they tried to contact Colwill and viraliser their publication on Facebook so that the auction does not take place.

But this Saturday, Electronic finalized the substitution and the helmet was bought by an anonymous buyer who paid 12,000 pounds. "We do not know who he sold it to, and we did not start to know it, that's it, we did what we could and we found it possible," Verónica said.

"My father is very grateful for all the messages and that gives him a lot of gratification," the woman added.

The case of Navarro joins that of veteran Jorge "Beto" Altieri, who eventually met the helmet that saved his life during the Battle of Mount Longdon, thanks to an anonymous buyer who paid the price on eBay.

The helmet that Matías Buonocore had kept at home in Lanús, in the province of Buenos Aires, was different. The 21-year-old is still looking for veteran Alfredo Raúl Cruz, born in 1962, to return it to him.

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