Disappearance of Lars Mittank

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Lars Mittank
Lars Joachim Mittank (2013).jpg
Lars Joachim Mittank in 2013
Born(1986-02-09)February 9, 1986
Berlin, Germany
DisappearedJuly 8, 2014 (aged 28)
Varna, Bulgaria
StatusMissing for 7 years, 6 months and 18 days
NationalityGerman
Known forDisappearing without a trace

Lars Joachim Mittank (born February 9, 1986)[1] is a German man who disappeared on July 8, 2014, near Varna Airport in Varna, Bulgaria. Mittank was vacationing at the Golden Sands resort, where he was involved in a fight, and was subsequently unable to fly home with his friends for health reasons. Mittank was witnessed acting strangely while alone in Bulgaria, and days later disappeared into the forest around Varna Airport for reasons unknown.[2]

Mysterious behaviour and disappearance[]

On June 30, 2014, 28-year-old German national Lars Mittank traveled with his friends to Varna, Bulgaria. They vacationed at the Golden Sands, a seaside resort just outside of the city of Varna.[3] On July 6, 2014, Mittank and friends were at a bar in town, and Mittank got into a disagreement with some other German nationals over football: Mittank, a fan of the football club Werder Bremen, had differences with fans of Bayern Munich.[4] He then parted from his friends outside a restaurant after leaving the bar, and disappeared for the rest of the night. Mittank turned up at the resort the following morning and told his friends he was beaten up by four men hired by the group in the bar whom he disagreed with the night before. The fight resulted in Mittank suffering an injured jaw and a ruptured ear drum.[5] He went and saw a doctor who advised him not to fly due to his injury,[3] and prescribed the antibiotic Cefprozil (500 mg). Mittank's friends wanted to stay with him, but he insisted he was fine on his own, and told them to stick with the original travel plan and fly home.

Mittank checked out of the resort the same time as his friends, and checked into the Hotel Color Varna. However, a day after his friends left, he began to act oddly, and his erratic behavior was recorded by the hotel's closed-circuit television security cameras.[4] He spent only one night in the hotel, during which he appeared paranoid and frightened.

While at the hotel, Mittank called his mother. In a whisper, he stated that four men were coming to kill him, and that she should cancel his credit cards.

Mittank was last seen at Varna Airport on July 8, 2014, the day he was hoping to fly home to Germany. He was consulting with the airport doctor when they were interrupted by an unknown man. Mittank then got up and fled the doctor's office, and then the main airport terminal. He was captured by airport security cameras running away. Once outside the airport, he was seen climbing a fence, running into a meadow, and disappearing into an adjacent field of sunflowers near Bulgarian national highway A2. He has not been seen since.[5]

Mittank's mother, alongside Bulgarian and German doctors, have suspected that Mittank's unusual behaviour was the result of a rare side effect from Cefprozil.[6] It is a cephalosporin,[7] which have been known to induce psychotic side effects, including hallucinations and paranoia.[8][9]

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References[]

  1. ^ "German Police Is Looking For A German Citizen". BKA Germany. Retrieved 9 December 2020
  2. ^ Lutzke, Andrew (2016-02-23). "Unsolved Mysteries and Scary Stuff: Lars Mittank and Other Cases". Culture Crossfire. Retrieved 2017-09-11.
  3. ^ a b O'Neill, Marnie (2016-05-30). "People are mysteriously vanishing from airports". news.com.au. Retrieved 2018-10-26.
  4. ^ a b Pepi, Kirk (2018-04-23). "The Mystery of the Most Famous Missing Person on YouTube". MEL Magazine. Retrieved 2018-10-26.
  5. ^ a b Heise, Thomas (2014-08-31). "Verschwunden in Bulgarien: Auf der Suche nach Lars Mittank". Spiegel Online (in German). Retrieved 2018-10-26.
  6. ^ "Vermisst nach Antibiotikum-Einnahme" [Missing after taking antibiotics]. apotheke adhoc. 6 August 2015. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  7. ^ Wiseman, L.R; Benfield, P. (February 1993). "Cefprozil. A review of its antibacterial activity, pharmacokinetic properties, and therapeutic potential". Drugs. 45 (2): 295–317. doi:10.2165/00003495-199345020-00008. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  8. ^ Essali, Norah; Miller, Brian. J. (December 2020). "Psychosis as an adverse effect of antibiotics". Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health. 9: 100148. doi:10.1016/j.bbih.2020.100148. PMC 8474525. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  9. ^ McDonald, C. Ann.; Addis, Steven (October 2003). "Cephalosporin-induced psychosis". Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 37 (5): 627–628. doi:10.1046/j.1440-1614.2003.01243.x. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
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