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An Iranian man who lived for 18 years in Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport and inspired the 2004 Steven Spielberg film The Terminal died on Saturday in the airport.
Caught in a diplomatic limbo, Mehran Karimi Nasseri made a small area of Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport his home in 1988.
Nasseri was eventually given the right to live in France, but he ended up returning to the airport a few weeks ago, reports Guardian, BBC, AFP.
Police and a medical team treated him but were not able to save him as after a heart attack.
Born in 1945 in the Iranian province of Khuzestan, Nasseri first flew to Europe in search of his mother.
He spent some years living in Belgium, having been expelled from countries including the UK, the Netherlands and Germany for not having the correct immigration documents.
He then went to France, where he made the airport's 2F Terminal his home.
Nestled on his bench surrounded by trolleys containing the possessions he had accumulated, he spent his days writing about his life in a notebook and reading books and newspapers.
His story attracted international media attention and caught the eye of Stephen Spielberg, who directed The Terminal, starring Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Nasseri returned to the airport a few weeks ago, where he lived until he died.
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