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An Iranian man who impressed the Tom Hanks movie The Terminal has died at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport the place he lived 18 years of his life.
AP studies that Merhan Karimi Nasseri died after a coronary heart assault within the airport’s Terminal 2F round noon Saturday, citing an official with the Paris airport authority. He was reportedly handled on the scene however sadly handed away.
Karimi Nasseri’s life story is actually the stuff of a blockbuster film after he ended up residing in Charles de Gaulle Airport’s Terminal 1 from 1988 till 2006, initially as a result of he lack residency papers however later just because he preferred it there.
Merhan Karimi Nasseri, Iranian homeless referred to as Sir Alfred poses in Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, August 6, 2004. He has lived inside airport for 16 years and his surreal existence impressed Steven Spielberg's The Terminal, starring Tom Hanks.
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In 1999 he was granted refugee standing and the suitable to stay in France.
“He now not desires to go away the airport,” his lawyer Christian Bourguet stated on the time. “He’s afraid of going.”
The airport official who spoke with AP stated he had began residing within the airport once more just some weeks in the past.
Karimi Nasseri’s story was the inspiration for the 2004 Steven Spielberg movie The Terminal which sees Tom Hanks’ character get trapped at New York’s JFK Airport when his dwelling nation collapses into revolution.
Karimi Nasseri was 77 years previous.