In France specifically, Charles Degegol Airport, Iranian Mahran Karimi Nasseri died after the residence for 18 years at the airport, from 1988 to 2006.
The man who inspired Tom Hanks in 2004, in The Terminal, a heart attack, on Saturday, where emergency services were called to help him, but she could not save him, according to an official at the Paris Airport Airport.
Nasseri lived in building No.
1 at the airport, due to a legal dilemma related to the residence papers, and his story was inspired .
Nasseri was born in 1945 in the Iranian province of Khuzestan, and traveled for the first time to Europe in search of his mother.
He spent a few years in Belgium after being expelled from countries such as (the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Germany); Because he did not possess the correct immigration documents, then he went to France, where he made the passenger station 2F at the airport home to him.
The Iranian man lived on a bench at the airport, surrounded by vehicles containing his accumulated property, spent his days writing about his life in his notebook and read books and newspapers.
His story attracted the attention of the international media and caught the attention of the actor and director Stephen Spielberg, who directed the movie Terminal, starring Hanks and Catherine Zeta Jones.
After the film was shown, the journalists flocked to speak with the man who was an inspiration for the Hollywood movie. At one time, Nasseri, who called himself “Sir Alfred”, was giving 6 interviews a day, Le Parisien newspaper reported.
Although he was granted the refugee status and the right to stay in France in 1999, he stayed at the airport until 2006, when he was transferred to the hospital for treatment, then he lived in a use of the money he obtained from the movie, according to the French newspaper Liberation.
An airport official said that Nasseri returned to the airport a few weeks ago, where he lived until his death.
The official added that several thousand European currency “the euro” was found in his possession..
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