{"id":1738281,"date":"2022-11-14T14:48:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T19:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1738281"},"modified":"2022-11-14T14:48:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T19:48:13","slug":"refugee-who-inspired-the-terminal-movie-dies-in-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/refugee-who-inspired-the-terminal-movie-dies-in-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Refugee Who Inspired \u2018The Terminal\u2019 Movie Dies In Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frefugee-who-inspired-the-terminal-movie-dies-in-airport%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1738281&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"p1\">The man who resided inside an airport for almost two decades and inspired the movie \u201cThe Terminal\u201d died on Saturday in the airport where he had returned to live.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Mehran Karimi Nasseri was a refugee from Iran who lived in the Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, France, for 18 years. He reportedly died in Terminal 2F around noon on Saturday. An airport representative said he sustained a fatal heart attack. Nasseri\u2019s age was not immediately available, but he was in his late 70s, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/13\/world\/europe\/mehran-karimi-nasseri-dead.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a>. The BBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-63612017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that he was born in 1945.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He had been living in a care facility earlier this year but came back to the airport a few months ago \u201cto live as a homeless person in the public space of the airport,\u201d the representative said. He also reportedly had several thousand euros on him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe reality is that he had psychological problems,\u201d the spokesperson said. \u201cHe was a homeless person who was taken care of by the airport community and doctors.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cMany people went to great lengths to have him hospitalized and put into a care home adapted to his needs,\u201d the spokesperson noted, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2022\/11\/13\/nasseri-paris-airport-terminal-spielberg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The airport also reportedly stated, \u201cwe would have preferred that he find a real shelter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Nasseri left Iran in the 1970s, either because he was banished or trying to escape political unrest. He attempted to find his mother in Europe and tried to enter other countries but was deported because he didn\u2019t have proper documentation. He lived in Belgium for several years before making his way to France. Once there, he wasn\u2019t allowed to migrate because he didn\u2019t have the correct paperwork. Authorities let him go into the Charles de Gaulle airport, and he ended up living there for several years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The tale inspired the movie, \u201cThe Terminal,\u201d directed by Steven Spielberg and starred Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones. There were rumors that DreamWorks Pictures <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/09\/21\/magazine\/waiting-for-spielberg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paid<\/a> Nasseri $275,000 for the rights to the movie, as well as some consulting roles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In 1999, he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1999\/09\/27\/world\/roissy-journal-11-years-caged-in-an-airport-now-he-fears-to-fly.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">allowed<\/a> to exit the airport and travel freely in Europe, but he didn\u2019t want to leave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201dHe is scared to leave this bubble world he has been living in,\u201d said Dr. Philippe Bargain, the airport\u2019s medical director. \u201dFinally getting the papers has been a huge shock to him, as if he was just thrown from his horse. When you wait 11 years for something and suddenly in a few minutes you sign some papers and it\u2019s done \u2014 imagine what a shock that is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man who resided inside an airport for almost two decades and inspired the movie \u201cThe Terminal\u201d died on Saturday in the airport where he had returned to live.\u00a0 Mehran Karimi Nasseri was a refugee from Iran who lived in the Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, France, for 18 years. 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