Since 1988, Mehran Karimi Nasseri lived in a terminal at Paris airport. Now, the Iranian who inspired Spielberg to make a film is dead.
The Iranian refugee, who lived for 18 years at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport and inspired Steven Spielberg’s film “Terminal”, is dead. Mehran Karimi Nasseri died of natural causes at the airport’s Terminal 2F on Saturday afternoon, an airport spokesman confirmed. the German Press Agency in Paris. In mid-September, Nasseri (76), who called himself Sir Alfred, returned to the airport after living in a house and, more recently, a hotel.
During a stopover in 1988, the Iranian lost his documents in the transit area. He could no longer prove his refugee status and was now not allowed to travel further or leave the airport. He then settled in Terminal 1. For years he tried in vain to gain admission to various European countries. In 1999, he got a visa for France, but he stayed in his alcove under an airport escalator, where he felt at home.
Nasseri stayed at the airport voluntarily
It wasn’t until 2006 that he left the airport for a hospital stay and later lived in a house. Nasseri’s story inspired Steven Spielberg’s 2004 film Terminal, starring Tom Hanks. With the money he received for the film, Nasseri moved into a hotel.
A few weeks ago, however, he was living at the airport again and was always sitting in the same place with his belongings in a cart, airport officials told Le Parisien newspaper. Recently, he barely spoke and stared into space. After the death of the “terminal man”, as he called himself in an autobiographical novel, the airport covered his seat with a white sheet.
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