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"They treated us like criminals and the only thing we did was to honor our people," he said. Page / 12 Luis Escobedo, veteran of the Malvinas, after being arrested in the islands for displaying a flag with the effigy of the archipelago and the legend "Territorio Argentino & # 39;". Escobedo had traveled with seven other ex-combatants to try to close his story of the war, but he ended up being denounced by an islander who felt wronged by the flag and the songs of the Argentines, who sang the anthem national and held a minute of silence for one minute. the fallen soldiers in the confrontation.

"In 1982, I was a British prisoner after the capitulation and now I am because of the denunciation of an islander," said Escobedo, continuing to put the distance between the two cases. Unlike his colleagues, the former soldier had already been to the islands in 2012, in 2016 and he wanted to close his personal history this year. "We want to denounce it because we do not want it to happen to anyone else, we express ourselves in the cemetery where our colleagues are and we pay tribute to them, as well as to those among us who are still alive, we do not bother anyone and we only do it there, "he said angrily.

He had barely finished the compulsory military service a month ago. I was just thinking of putting on my shirt and boots to start rolling the ball. A month of rest and about to resume training, he saw in the newspaper an announcement with the call to the colimbas of his brigade who appeared on the list of reservists in which they again called, but this time was intended to defend sovereignty against the English. to the Malvinas. In this war, Argentine military leaders, who still maintained clandestine detention centers on the mainland, sent young people between the ages of 18 and 20 who had barely any military training to confront the British military forces.

"We went on Monday, we went to Darwin cemetery on Tuesday, where we unfurled our flags and sang the anthem, then we made a minute of silence and shouted," Long live the country, it is n & # 39; There is nothing more, "recalled Escobedo, and it was frowned upon by the kelpers." There was an Austrian journalist whom a local driver had brought. It was the driver who told us he had shouted aggression and that he had felt wronged, "added the former footballer who crossed Belgrano, Vélez and Los Andes, between The next day was normal, they met British soldiers with whom they exchanged their experiences and the next day, Thursday morning, the police woke them up. "They took out our pbadports and we were arrested for two days at the airport. Hotel because the police station does not have a prison, "Escobedo said.

"Apparently, what disturbed the kelper is my flag carrying an image of the Falklands and Argentine territory," said the veteran, adding that "these flags were in no way displayed outside Our comrades, who now have a name and a surname, we must be able to honor them as we think, we do not disrespect or shock anyone, the British authorities have understood and told us that would talk to the guardians of corruption to change their attitude towards us. "