The helmet of a Malvinas pilot is auctioned in London

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

"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 Thank you! ", Posted yesterday morning on his Facebook account, Veronica Navarro, daughter of a veteran.

In recent days, Veronica and his brother Mauricio have tried, on social networks, to recover the helmet used by his father during the 1982 war, in which he led the squadron of Pucará.

"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 need to get it back, please, "the veteran's children had asked a week ago. The message was shared hundreds of times, both on Facebook and Twitter, and the children of the ex-fighter – who lives in Córdoba – explained that the situation "had mobilized them and we started to discover to try to contact the person who has it, it is a private matter, to try to recover it ".

But finally, yesterday morning, the electronic auction was over and the helmet was bought by an anonymous buyer who paid 12,000 pounds to buy the item. 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 sold it to, and we did not start to know it – that's it, we did what we could and we thought possible," he said. explained Verónica during a conversation with Telam, adding: "My father is very grateful for all the messages, which gratifies him a lot."

Last March, another veteran, Jorge Alberto "Beto" Altieri, was more fortunate and managed to recover the helmet that saved his life at the Battle of Monte Longdon, having been removed from a police station. 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.