A Bulgarian drug addict, who was on his way to a treatment facility abroad, has disappeared at the border between Austria and Hungary, media reported.

The 24-year-old man went missing on May 14, and hasn't been heard from since, Trud daily newspaper reports.

Temenuzhka Lyubenova, head of the municipal council on drug addictions in the man's native town of Blagoevgrad has sent an open letter to Austria's ambassador to Bulgaria Karl Diem, asking for cooperation in finding the man.

She explained that the heroin addict was traveling to Italy where he was supposed to join a therapeutic community, when the Austrian border police took him off the bus and didn't let him cross the border. The officers said that someone who held the same passport had committed robberies.

The passport had been issued two days before the trip and the man hadn't left Bulgaria before that, Lyubenova said.

Suffering boys and girls, who are traveling towards their last hope for a normal life, shouldn't all of a sudden turn into the EU's greatest enemies, Lyubenova added.

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