Disappearance of Lars Mittank
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Lars Joachim Mittank (born 9 February 1986) is a German man who disappeared on 8 July 2014, near Varna Airport in Varna, Bulgaria. Mittank was on holiday at the Golden Sands resort, where he was supposedly involved in a fight, and was unable to fly home with his friends for health reasons. Mittank was documented acting strangely while alone in Bulgaria. He called home to his mother claiming that people were trying to kill him. On the day when he was supposed to fly home, Mittank went to the Varna Airport to consult a doctor. He was later seen on airport security footage running out of the airport and towards an adjacent forest. There have been no confirmed sightings since. The case has generated intense interest, and the frequency with which people viewed the footage of him fleeing the airport has led to him being named "the most famous missing person on YouTube".
Background of Lars Mittank
Lars Mittank was born on 9 February 1986, in Berlin, Germany. He grew up in Itzehoe, Schleswig-Holstein, and lived there for his entire life.
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