the guy who inspired Spielberg’s ‘The Terminal’ Tom Hanks dies inside Paris airport

[pattanispirit]

Mehran Karimi Nasseri, the man who had lived inside the Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport for years and inspired Steven Spielberg’s 2004 film “The Terminal”, died Saturday at the same airport.

Nasseri was pronounced dead by the airport medical team at Terminal 2F and had died of natural causes, a spokesperson for the airport told CNN.
Nasseri, an Iranian refugee, was en route to England via Belgium and France in 1988 when he lost his papers and could not board a flight nor leave the airport and was stuck in limbo until 2006.

He had “returned to live as a homeless person in the public area of the airport since mid-September, after a stay in a nursing home,” the spokesperson said.

The spokesperson added that Nasseri was an “iconic character” at the airport and that the “whole airport community was attached to him, and our staff looked after him as much as possible during many years, even if we would have preferred him to find a real shelter.”

While Nasseri’s story inside the airport was memorialized by Tom Hanks in the movie “The Terminal”, the spokesperson for the airport noted that: “The Spielberg film suggests that he was stuck in a transit zone at Paris-Charles de Gaulle. In reality, he spent several stays there, but always in the public area of the airport, he was always free to move around.”

 

[1982-1994]

and our staff looked after him as much as possible during many years, even if we would have preferred him to find a real shelter

Really?

 

[Kunkka]

woah use him make movie he still homeless?

 

[herzberg]

We also hab some auntie/unker rent out hdb for money then stay free at airport. Why bo make movie??

 

[ChrisChamber]

Vaxxed or not?

 

[sPacEmAn_sPiFf]

he chose to return to the airport to die there..?

 

[tankgunner]

Rip.....

 

[pattanispirit]

Vaxxed or not?

i was thinking it could be Covid . . . . since airport is a place where ppl from all countries will pass by.

how did he feed himself ? i didn't watch the movie.






这个故事就是告诉大家，善有善报，恶有恶报。

这个恶农妇因为最后的恶念，让她失去了再一次能够上天堂的机会。

我们活在这个世界上，多帮助别人，我们会得到别人更多的帮助，所以我们要有更多无私的爱，人要活在众生当中，其实善和恶就在我们人间的一念之中。




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[XiaoDangDan]

Jin nice this show, bring back memories

 

[zendude]

1988 to 2006 is insane, I thought it was 2-3 years at most.

 

[focus1974]

and our staff looked after him as much as possible during many years, even if we would have preferred him to find a real shelter

Really?

the staff can only do so much. they are not decision makers.

only the decision makers above ... the country politicians can do anything for him