The family of a Falklands driver is trying to recover his helmet at an auction on eBay

CORDOBA.- Verónica and Mauricio Navarro, children of the ex-combatant of

Malvinas

Commander Miguel Manuel "Toto" Navarro, leader of the Pucará squadron during the war, began his fight to recover the helmet of his father, whose plane is in a museum of civil war in Norwich, in England. The helmet appeared on Ebay to be auctioned. The family is from

Córdoba

. Navarro lives and is shocked by the news.

In dialogue
THE NATIONVeronica said Saturday that her brother had told her that she had found the helmet at the auction. At that time, the base was 170 euros. Since then, the price has risen and has risen to around 3,400 euros. There are still four auction days.

Barely aware, the children of Navarro wrote on their social networks and asked not to bid. Mauricio contacted the seller and told him his story, but did not answer. A contact in England did the same and the answer was that he was not going to stop the auction for "respect" to those who had proposed it.

"We are lucky that my father is alive, even if his plane is far and unrecoverable, it's an opportunity for him to have at least a part of this painful story and who has marked it so much.One of the most beautiful gifts of his life, these gifts that make you vibrate and tear you apart, but that are yours, "Veronica said on Facebook.

According to Veronica, his father's plane would have been damaged on the islands. "He was traveling until he arrived at the Museum of Civilization and an Argentine resident got help to fix it, he is out and makes conservation difficult," he said.

When Veronica spoke to her father, who was director of Ezeiza International Airport, she was "moved and angry because there are people who take advantage of the helmet, she did not want anything know our offer. A few hours later, calmer, it has changed a little. idea. "

"Toto" said that when the British made them prisoners, the helmet, the oxygen mask and other personal belongings of the Argentines – all identified – were deposited in a container. Then they lost contact. "We do not know how the story will continue, and all Air Force leaders are aware," Verónica told the newspaper.

In March of this year,
Another ex-fighter, Jorge "Beto" Altieri, found his helmet thanks to a benefactor. It has also been auctioned on the eBay site. He had fought against the third battalion of British paratroopers at Mount Longdon and had been hit by a burst of an English bomb.