Mehran Karimi Nasseri, the Iranian man who lived in Paris’ Charles De Gaulle airport between 1988 and 2006 and who inspired the film, has died The terminaldirected by Steven Spielberg. The news was data from airport officials to the news agency AFP extension: Nasseri in fact died at terminal 2F of the “Charles De Gaulle”, which he had resumed frequenting a few weeks ago after having spent a good part of the money earned from the rights to Spielberg’s film. Thousands of euros in cash were found on him.
Born in 1942 and on bad terms with his family, Nasseri was forced to leave Iran when he was 35 for his activism against Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the authoritarian Western allied leader who ruled the country before the Revolution of 1979. After wandering around Europe he entered France illegally and lost his papers.
In August 1988, Nasseri was stopped by the border police at Terminal 1 of the “Charles de Gaulle”, without the necessary documents recognizing him as a political refugee. He therefore remained to live inside the airport until 1998, when he was granted the possibility of leaving it: but he did not and remained there until 2006, when he left due to health problems. Meanwhile, the US film studio DreamWorks had offered him $ 250,000 for the rights to use his story.
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