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Merhan Karimi Nasseri, an Iranian antheral who lived for 18 years successful Paris’s Charles de Gaulle Airport and inspired the Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks movie The Terminal, died Saturday astatine the airport, officials said. He was believed to beryllium 80 years old.
Nasseri died from a bosom onslaught successful the airport’s Terminal 2F astir midday, officials said. A aesculapian squad and constabulary treated him, but were incapable to prevention him.
Nasseri lived successful the airport’s Terminal 1 from 1988 until 2006. He was successful ineligible limbo astatine archetypal due to the fact that helium lacked residency papers, but aboriginal stayed connected astatine the airdrome by choice. He had been surviving successful the airdrome again successful caller weeks, officials said.
His saga inspired The Terminal, a 2004 movie starring Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Stanley Tucci.
The movie changed the real-life events into the communicative of an Eastern European antheral who is stuck in New York‘s JFK Airport erstwhile helium is denied introduction to the United States. In the film, a subject coup successful his location state prevents the antheral from returning home. It did $219 cardinal worldwide astatine the container office.
Nasseri’s communicative was much complicated. He was flying from Brussels to London via Paris. But helium mislaid his exile passport and was denied introduction to France. Thus, helium took up residence successful the transit country of Terminal 1 astatine Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport.
He stayed determination until July 2006, erstwhile helium was hospitalized, and upon betterment was transferred among assorted foundation shelters. The AP reported helium had precocious resumed surviving astatine the airport. It was unclear whether helium had a root of income.
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