RIP Mehran Karimi Nasseri
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2022 8:30 am
Iranian man who inspired Tom Hanks' 'The Terminal' dies at Paris airport
The Iranian man who inspired the events behind the 2004 Steven Spielberg film "The Terminal" died Saturday in the Paris airport where he lived for nearly 20 years, officials said.
Mehran Karimi Nasseri died at Charles de Gaulle Airport, his home for 18 years, from a heart attack in the airport’s Terminal 2F around midday, according to an official with the Paris airport authority.
Emergency services treated him at the scene but were unable to save him, an official said.
The real person behind the fictional story lived in the Paris airport’s Terminal 1 from 1988 until 2006, initially as the result of an unsuccessful deportation-turned-legal limbo.
He later stayed by apparent choice.