Mehran Karimi Nasseri, an Iranian man whose unusual life inspired films such as Steven Spielberg's “The Terminal,” died at Charles de Gaulle Airport Saturday. He lived there for 18 years.
The real person behind the fictional story lived in the Paris airport’s Terminal 1 from 1988 until 2006, initially as the result of an unsuccessful deportation-turned-legal limbo.As the years passed, Nasseri became a celebrity of sorts, sleeping on a red plastic bench, making friends with airport workers, showering in staff facilities, and reading magazines.
A traveler walks in the Terminal 2 corridors of the Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport, in the northeastern outskirts of Paris, on September 16, 2022.in 1974. He was imprisoned when he returned home, he said, for protesting against the shah.His legal woes grew when he applied for asylum in and was granted it by the UNHCR in Belgium, but he said the refugee certificate was stolen at a Paris train station.He was then sent to Charles de Gaulle in August 1988, where he stayed.
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