They auctioned for $ 700,000 the helmet of a Falklands soldier

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 used by my father during the Falklands War to fly the Pucará, which is currently in a museum in Britain, was published in E-bay, England, for auction. 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 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, 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.

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

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