They auctioned for 700,000 pesos the helmet of a Malvinas pilot that his family was seeking to recover – 05/11/2019

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

"The auction is over, the helmet has been sold at 12,000 pounds, about 705,000 Argentine pesos, thanks to all for the messages of support and the words of my old man, they are much more than # 39; helmet, thank you! ", He has posted this morning on his account. from Facebook Verónica Navarro, daughter of the veteran.

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In recent days, Veronica and his brother Mauricio have tried, on social networks, to recover the helmet that his father had used during the war of 1982, in which he had served as guard. leader of the Pucara squadron.

"We learned that the helmet used by my father during the Falklands War to fly the Pucará, which is now in a museum in Britain, was auctioned on eBay England. We must recover it please", said the sons of the ex-fighter a week ago.

The message was shared hundreds of times by Facebook and Twitter, and the children of the ex-fighter – who lives in Cordoba – explained that the situation "had mobilized them and we began to discover it to try to contact the person who has it, which is a private matter, to try to recover it ".

But finally, on the morning of this Saturday, the electronic auction ended and the headphones It was acquired by an anonymous buyer who paid 12,100 pounds.

The seller was an Englishman, named Jonathan Callwill, who tells on the eBay page that the helmet had fallen after him. the widow of a British fighter would sell it to him.

"We do not know who he sold it to, we did not start to know it, that's it, we did what we could and we considered it as possible, "explained Verónica during a conversation with Telam this afternoon, adding: "My father is very grateful for all the messagesand that gratifies him a lot. "

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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, after being 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.

Source: Telam