An Iranian man who lived for 18 years in Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport and whose saga loosely inspired the Steven Spielberg film “The Terminal” died Saturday in the airport that he long called home, officials said.
1 from 1988 until 2006, first in legal limbo because he lacked residency papers and later by apparent choice.
Year in and year out, he slept on a red plastic bench, making friends with airport workers, showering in staff facilities, writing in his diary, reading magazines and surveying passing travelers.“Eventually, I will leaveAssociated Press in 1999, smoking a pipe on his bench, looking frail with long thin hair, sunken eyes and hollow cheeks. “But I am still waiting for a passport or transit visa.”n under British jurisdiction, to an Iranian far. He left Iran to study in England in 1974.
French police later arrested him, but couldn't deport him anywhere because he had no official documents. He ended up at Charles de Gaulle in August 1988 and stayed.r bureaucratic bungling and increasingly strict European immigration laws kept him in a legal no-man's land for years. When he finally received refugee papers, he described his surprise, and his insecurity, about leavingre several more years until he was hospitalized in 2006, and later lived in a Paris shelter.
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