Quotted article shares some weird theories.
"He may have thought his friends had gotten caught and he was about to be arrested, hence why he ran out of the airport without his luggage or cellphone and hopped a fence."
How this even goes together?
If theory is that
either he or his friends were smuggling drugs to Germany...
Why would he fear getting arrested if they had drugs?
If he didn't and he wasn't with them then why arrest?
Why would he think that his friends got arrested if he was the one attempting to smuggle drugs? The person at the doc's office was not a police officer and he was still before boarding. Were they all supposed to have drugs on them?
I'm failing to see any sense there. Where was he running without all his belongings? Why he was running if not followed? Why running at all while being at the pretty safe location? Why kept running while not being followed?
Unless we're talking not only them (all group including Lars) being drug mules (in whatever combination) but
also him having highely unlikely bad reaction to prescribed medicine or/and undiagnosed concussion and while putting up with such a stressful task (either by their/his own will or forced to do so) also not shying from drawing attention to himself by visiting docs and calling his mom.
This is too far fetched.
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His friends explained that he experienced a ruptured ear canal after a bar fight, and he was acting strange to be implausible; then why would they leave ‘a friend’ alone in a foreign country who they assumed was acting weird. And claimed had disappeared for an entire night during the trip. It just doesn’t pass the common-sense test. This story of him ‘acting bizarre due to a ruptured ear canal and then seeing a doctor who they claim said he might have to stay in the country for 30 days is too far-fetched. As others have pointed out, minor surgery by an ENT could have been performed pretty easily and allowed him to fly back immediately."
This makes even less sense.
Who pointed out that guy from Germany could get a "minor surgery by an ENT" in Bulgaria
in the matter of hours?
Really? Like no waiting, no delays, no queues, just like that, despite of it not being an emergency life threatening procedure and him being a tourist in Bulgaria.
Lars went to the hospital, where he was refused any help apart from getting prescription for antibiotic, that was not allowed in UE cause local doctor didn't felt like bothering with language barrier. And Lars mother was trying to reach his international insurance provider, it wasn't going that quick.
And where did they get the idea of him staying in a foreign country for an undetermined period of days? He had tickets for bus and airplane booked for the next day so what "undetermined period of days". What they are talking about?
I never stumbled on any info that indicated that anyone else but that doc at the resort was ever mentioning 30 days, and even he probably meant "no flights for a month".
"Why would he choose to instead stay in a foreign country alone for an undetermined period of days? After his friends flew back, he reportedly checked into a seedy cheap hotel, the kind of place a man involved in a drug-running operation might stay or be kept at until he is let go."
Are we going to assume that any reasonable person, that is not involved in some sort of drug deals would:
- NOT stay and flew back home immediately even if it'd cause them extreme pain and possibly left them deaf and unable to keep their dream job?
- have a lot of money to rent a room at high end, highly reputable hotel (really lot of money, cause only the cheapest and five stars were not full and booked at the time)
- develop a great knowledge of which motels are cheap but nice and whih cheap and shady - while having no reason to do that research, cause the plan was to stay at the resort - but develop that immediately as soon as need for it apeared, with no internet access.
This is, IMO and excuse my language, nuts.
As for another article:
Reaction and additions to a user's comment 1. Alleged organ dealers are orthopedic; Lars wasn't in the area of the hotel after a week, which was completely new to him. When Lars then wants to "escape" from the hotel and wanders around the area for hours, who was he supposed to be chased by? The blind or the snails? Because trust me, being a criminal and running organ trafficking mafia, sure as hell letting someone escape a hotel.
Why these theories always have to shoot for the stars and consider only some extremely sophisticated, well organised crime with masterminds behind it?
Who was he supposed to be chased by?
At that point any local
would do.
He was wearing bright yellow shirt, fancy sneakers and was carrying adidas bag in rather poor, unsafe area of unsafe city in unsafe country, at night. In what world is it unlikely that guy like that will end up targeted as good candidate to rob?
Unlikely but not impossible that he was unlucky enough to meet same guys who beat him up again.
Less unlikely that he was scared after the first attack, didn't remember how those guys looked like that well, and spotted similar group or similar guy acting kinda shady he assumed or feared that they're same guys.
He had all the reasons to be terrified, and being wrong about thinking that it is same group of guys wouldn't be crazy for a person who never was attacked or chased by anyone in their life and then suddenly in such a short time it happened repeatedly.
Motel staff acted weird with his card. He told about it his mother and asked her to cancel it in fear of getting his account emptied.
He ended up in a room with paper thin walls, hearing a lot of disturbing noises.
He tried to get out of there, and he left but came back as group of guys started following him and he had to hide to avoid another beating and robbery.
As he came back, he kept checking whats happening outside cause then he was more concerned by that than the shady motel.
Answer to 1. The truth is, Lars wasn’t a local expert. Neither at the holiday hotel nor at the Hotel Color, he knew his surroundings. If someone at Hotel Color wanted to hurt him, that person wouldn't have waited until the airport.
The truth is that apparently nobody at Hotel Color wanted to murder, kidnap or restrain him... or that nobody wanted it badly enough to finish the job.
The fact that he was incredibly easy target and somehow made it to the airport isn't by any stretch a proof that nobody tried.
What it's even debunking? That sloppy organ trafficking mafia wasn't hunting him for a week, failing to properly restrain or even catch him before he ran out of the airport heading maybe in the direction of an empty field?
Very nice thing to debunk.
Add to that, the "organ mafia" in Bulgaria does not work like that. For little money you can get the non-life-necessary organs to buy from the population. On top of that, no one has been able to determine Lars' blood group to decide whether organs of his would have been suitable. Because no one drew Lars blood.
Well, if we're talking organ mafia, then business would not end with a few organs and specific blood type.
Young, healthy guy has a few organs to sell, and as long as he's alive there is no hurry with harvesting them right away.
It should end with "organ trafficking mafia" doesn't work like that".
Kidnapping random young person with unknown bloodtype shouldn't cause much trouble for human/organ traffickers.
Who's not good as a donor could be worked to death somewhere or sex trafficked.
Getting international attention isn't good for business, but neither is having very narrow range of interest.
I don't personally believe that Lars was targeted by organ mafia, but why even use a term "mafia" while description suggest some small side-business that'd require looking for specific organ with specific blood type?
Presence of people, struggling with poverty and desperate enough to (in this example: sell their organs) risk their health and life for a little money surprisingly does not decrease the chance that some gang will appear in the area to demand more money from those who pay and rob the poor from everything. It not surprisingly increases those chances. Especially if local LE lacks the tools, means and in some cases even will to effectively fight it.
2. The doctor is an employee of the airport attendants. The airport operator is the only GERMAN Fraport - Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide. Tell me, you conspiracy theorist, what interest would a GERMAN company have in getting involved in such a case? Answer to 2. The doctor is hired at the airport! Correct. However, the statement is not true that Fraport AG owns the airport. Fraport AG is the operator and co-owner of the airport. Fraport AG owns 49% of Varna Airport and 49% of Burgas Airport. The remaining 51% (main participants (solo destination)) are owned by a Bulgarian security company.
This is too wild of a theory IMO to assume that ALL of what we know about Lars experiences is a part of one, extremely sophisticated yet also extremely sloppy scenario with same people behind it.
As far as the conspiracy theory go... conspiracy means that multiple people are conspiring together to achieve some sort of goal.
There is no need for whole staff, whole companies and even countries of their orign to be aware or an all in some sort of illegal activity to have one or few people that are in.
So, speaking theoretically: GERMAN company could have NO interest in getting involved in such a case, same GERMAN company could suffer cause of such involvement (if that'd go public), same could be told about some Bularian security company, but it doesn't mean that some of people with ties to those companies couldnt have some interest in getting involved in such a case.
May be not a case here but what kind of argument is that?
Would it fly if the case would be about stealing money from a bank, conspiracy theory would explore a possibility of a bank employee being involved in it and the argument against that theory would be that it's ridiculous cause bank would have no interest in stealing money from their clients?
Company that relies on tourism could see some interest in covering up a disturbing or criminal event that occured on their ground with their employes involved.
