They removed the helmet of a Malvinas pilot: his family could not get it back

The helmet of the Malvinas veteran Miguel Manuel "Toto" Navarro, auctioned on the Internet for more than $ 700,000, was sold this morning. Even though his family had launched a campaign to try to get her back, an English buyer has frustrated the dream of returning the pilot's helmet to the country.

"The auction is over, the helmet has been sold at 12,100 pounds, or about 705,000 Argentine pesos. Thank you all for the support messages and the words for my old man. They are worth a lot more than a headset. Thank you! Posted this morning on his Facebook account Verónica Navarro, daughter of the veteran.

The subject of the war had been auctioned on the eBay site by an English citizen called Jonathan Callwill, who, although having been informed of the need of the Navarro family to retrieve it, Decided to sell the product to an anonymous buyer.

Mauricio and Verónica Navarro, children of the ex-fighter, had warned that Saturday would be the deadline to collect the money and get to stop the auction. It did not happen.

"Toto" Navarro was at the head of the Pucará squadron in 1982. "We learned about the auction of my old man's helmet by a friend in Olavarría, a fan of everything that the Pucará squadron did," Mauricio Navarro said during a telephone conversation. Infobae after the publication was known.

"He sent me the pictures and I saw that the word" Toto "is printed on the front& # 39;, which is the nickname of my old man. I sent him the photos on WhatsApp and he immediately replied: & # 39; Yes, it is my helmet & # 39;"he added.

The children of the ex-fighter are from Córdoba and manifested I do not know who was the helmet buyer used by his father. "We also did not start to know it, that's all, we did what we could and we think it's possible," Verónica explained at a news conference. dialogue with the agency. Telam this afternoon.

He also said: "My father is very grateful for all the messages and that gives him a lot of satisfaction."

The eldest son of the pilot stated that after hearing about the auction, the helmet has been valued at around $ 160. "I started offering a little more money, but every time I put a number, they beat me immediately. One day, I played it and I offered $ 3,000. I do not have them, but at the time, I thought I could get them with a loan from a friend. But this figure has also exceeded. There, we did not know what to do, "he explained.

Navarro departed with his plane, registered A-528, April 2, 1982 from the airport of the base of the Third Air Brigade of the Reconquista, Santa Fe. His son Federico, who went to see him at the airport, was 10 years old at the time.

The ex-combatant landed in Río Gallegos and a few days later he was sent to the islands to fight in the Falklands airs. Currently, Miguel "Toto" Navarro is 78 years old and his state of health is delicate.