Iranian man who inspired film The Terminal dies in Paris airport

The Iranian man who inspired the film 'The Terminal' --starring Tom Hanks, has died at the Paris airport he lived in for almost two decades. Mehran Karimi Nasseri left Iran in 1974 to study in the UK, but when he returned, he says he was imprisoned and exiled without documentation. That set in motion a life then lived in limbo, at one of the world's busiest transit hubs.
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[williamramos]

Being able to endure for so long. This is true inner strength. I honestly cannot even imagine an existence like that.

[gabriella]

I mean the airport seems better than living in a shelter so I can understand why he returned.

[OctPSfever]

The terminal 1 was his home. He returned there and rest in peace. He knew his friends at the airport would take care of him. Everybody has their own definition of home.

[thecoolzone]

Mehran Karimi Naseri, who was 77 years old at the time of his death, somehow became a symbol for the displacement and exile of millions of Iranian refugees around the world.He was a lost soul Rest in Peace Sir Alfred.

[maxd]

So now we know who is the real hero of the terminal.. R.I.P sir 🌷

[azdrifter]

I was on a greyhound bus from Phoenix to Flagstaff and was sitting next to a guy who had been living on Greyhound buses for over a year. He inherited money while homeless. First thing he did was travel across the country on the Greyhound bus because he was afraid of driving and never got a license. He said after that, with no house or place to call home, he traveled back across the country on the Greyhound. Then just kept buying tickets to different states and areas he didn't go through on his cross country trips. He had pics of himself at different terminals in a bunch of different states. He was a little off in the head you could tell, but was a good dude. I kept waiting to see if he gets noticed and stories about him start coming out but that was years ago now.

[sevraonic]

He had made a lot of money than anyone doing day to day work, with just staying in the airport. I think that's the life he chose and quite satisfied with it unlike people who wanted more but never get the satisfaction. Everyone of us has our own fulfillment level and I think he found his.

[JTC]

R.I.P.
Mehran Kamari Nasseri
1945 - 2022

[sandie]

What a shameful thing for bureaucrats to do . His humanity and vulnerability shames them. Was there not one millionaire Iranian or one French lawmaker in France who could have lifted a finger to help this poor man?

[lastdon]

Who else is here because they saw a short about Tom Hanks movie the terminal? and didn’t know this was based on a true story.

[asifkhan]

Very Sad ending for the man who inspired Tom Hanks character in The Terminal.

[joseadrianmascorroaguirre]

The comb over tells me, he nerver gives up. Even when all is lost.

[parvezmalikvlogs]

He was a priceless person. World especially France didn't regard respect n helped him.

[hayleyquinnx]

people forget that he refused to accept his papers because they weren't in the name of Sir Alfred, he was telling people he was a British native then a Canadian Native, when his family came to visit him he pretended not to know them. He had said he was trying to get to Britain to find his long lost mother but his mother was Iranian and even came to visit him but he pretended not to know her. Even the events of his protests were apparently exaggerated. For whatever reason he wanted a new identity and when he got stuck in CDG Airport and became well known for it, he realised that was his identity. They even found out that he had actually mailed his passport and documents somewhere randomly so that he would have no identity when he arrived. He was clearly trying to leave his old life behind and make a new identity. He even claimed he was knighted, hence the 'Sir'. He was so beholden to the new identity that it was why he refused to sign any papers in his old name.

[SenatorAgrapa]

He never find his beloved mother cause of the brutality against him by the UK and France

RIP 🌹

Nasseri was born in 1945 in Soleiman — a part of Iran, then under British jurisdiction — to an Iranian father and a British mother. He left Iran to study in England in 1974. When he returned, he said, he was imprisoned for protesting against the Shah and expelled without a passport.

He applied for political asylum in several countries in Europe. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Belgium gave him refugee credentials, but he said his briefcase containing the refugee certificate was stolen at a Paris train station.

[okman]

I m concerned about the public security in turkey after seeing economic crisis and terrorist attacks 😥🇹🇷

[rushennbody]

His story itself helped make someone millions yet nothing has been spent for his freedom!

[bahtfa.ttiger]

What he did for living in the airport?

[suewalker]

Man I can’t picture living in an airport

[kamalaalkishiyeva]

I heard that, about 45minutes ago there has been terror in Taksim and 4 people have died, RIP for all of our Turkish Turk brothers that have lost their life😔🙏