Iranian who lived in Paris airport for 18 years and impressed ‘The Terminal’ dies

An Iranian man who impressed American movie director Steven Spielberg’s ‘The Terminal’ died on Saturday. Merhan Karimi Nasseri lived for 18 years at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport. He died after a coronary heart assault within the airport’s Terminal 2F round noon, an official with the Paris airport authority advised the worldwide information company AP. Police and a medical workforce handled him however couldn’t save him.

Believed to have been born in 1945, Nasseri lived within the airport’s Terminal 1 from 1988 till 2006. He was caught on the airport as a result of he lacked residency papers. Nevertheless, later he remained there by alternative.

AFP reported that Nasseri was ultimately given the correct to dwell in France, however he returned to the airport a couple of weeks in the past. He had been residing within the airport once more in latest weeks.

Stories say that Nasseri landed at Charles de Gaulle Airport close to Paris in 1988 after being denied entry into the UK as a result of his passport and refugee certificates issued by the United Nations had been stolen.

The French authorities didn’t permit him to go away the airport, leaving him with no possibility however to remain there.

Nasseri’s story started after he flew to Europe looking for his Scottish mom. Nevertheless, he was expelled from international locations just like the UK, the Netherlands, and Germany for lack of right immigration paperwork. Having been denied entry into these international locations, Nasseri spent some years in Belgium. He then went to France, the place he made the airport terminal his dwelling, BBC reported.

At Terminal One, the place he stayed, he all the time stored his baggage by his facet, and hung out studying, writing his diary, and learning economics. He acquired meals and newspapers from airport staff.

Nasseri’s story impressed Tom Hanks’ The Terminal and the French movie ‘Tombés du ciel’ starring Jean Rochefort. In ‘The Terminal’, Hanks, whose nation had simply plunged into disaster after a coup, stays in New York’s John F Kennedy airport after being denied entry to the USA (US).