An Iranian man who inspired the film The Terminal has died at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport where he lived 18 years of his life. He was 77. Merhan Karimi Nasseri died after a heart attack in the airport’s Terminal 2F.
Karimi Nasseri’s life story is literally the stuff of a blockbuster movie after he ended up living in Charles de Gaulle Airport’s Terminal 1 from 1988 until 2006, initially because he lack residency papers but later simply because he liked it there.
In 1999 he was granted refugee status and the right to remain in France. “He no longer wants to leave the airport,” his lawyer Christian Bourguet said at the time. “He’s scared of going.”
He had started living in the airport again just a few weeks ago.
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If he was constantly en route he must’ve taken the jab or else they wouldn’t have allowed him in.