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Merhan Karimi Nasseri, the real man who inspired Steven Spielberg’s film The Terminal, has died in the airport he lived in for 18 years.
The Iranian man is believed to have been born in 1945 but became stuck in legal limbo in Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, France in 1988 after apparently lacking residency papers.
He had lived there until 2006 when he was hospitalised and his sitting place had been dismantled, with Nasseri being looked after by the airport’s branch of the French Red Cross after his release from hospital before being housed in a Paris shelter since 2008.
According to local reports, an airport official claimed he had been living back in the airport again in recent weeks until his death just before midday on Saturday.