It has been sold to more than 700 "lucas", Malinois helmet in London electronic auction | Chronic

The helmet of the Falklands veteran, Miguel Manuel Navarro it was sold Saturday morning in London for more than 700 000 pesos on an online auction site. The desire of the veteran's family to recover it was frustrated.

"The auction is over, the helmet has been sold at 12,000 pounds, about 705,000 Argentine pesos, thanks to everyone for the messages of support and the words of my old man, they are well more than a helmet., posted this morning on his Facebook account Verónica Navarro, daughter of the veteran.

For a few days, Veronica and her brother Mauricio They tried to retrieve on social networks the helmet that his father had used during the 1982 war, where he led the Pucará squadron.

"We learned that the helmet that my father used during the Falklands War to fly the Pucará, which is now in a museum in Britain, was auctioned off at E-bay England.
We must recover it please "said the ex-fighter's sons a week ago.

The message was shared hundreds of times by Facebook and Twitter, and the children of the ex-fighter – who live in Córdoba – explained that the situation "mobilized and we started looking to try to contact the person who has him, who is a private person, to try to recover him".

But finally, this morning, the electronic auction ended and the helmet was bought by an anonymous buyer who paid 12,100 pounds.

The seller was an Englishman, named Jonathan Callwill, who tells on the E-bay page that the helmet had fallen into his hands after the widow of a British fighter sold it.

"We do not know who he was selling it to, and we did not start to know it, that's all, we did what we could and we thought that it would not work. was possible "Veronica explained and added: "My father is very grateful for all the messages and it gratifies him a lot".

Last March, another ex-combatant, Jorge Alberto "Beto Altieri, was luckier and managed to recover the helmet that saved his life in the Battle of Monte Longdon, having been removed from an auction in London.

The ex-fighter, who lives in Lanús, had been fighting for four years to recover his helmet when a friend told him that he was participating in an Internet auction in London. He could recognize it through the photos showing the flare and label that Altieri had put with his name and his regiment inside.

This is how the family expressed their pain