'Terminal' starring Tom Hanks dies
At the age of 77 at Paris airport
Who Inspired Steven Spielberg's Works
'Terminal' starring Tom Hanks dies
At the age of 77 at Paris airport
Where he lived for 18 years.
His cause of death is a heart attack.
According to AP and AFP news on the 12th (local time)
Mehran Karimi Nasseri from Iran
died naturally in
2nd floor terminal at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport.
Even after receiving refugee status
She continued 'The End of Life'.
She was born in 1945 to an Iranian father.
The British mother, Nasseri, said:
He was deported without a passport in the 1970s.
While fighting the monarchy of Iran.
He applied for political asylum in several European countries,
However, he was rejected and was granted refugee status in 1986.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said:
Belgian resident Nasseri arrived in Paris in 1988 by train.
Tried to go to his mother's England, but in the bag
Refugee documents at the train station.
Passed through Yongker Paris Airport without immigration
It was a success and landed at London Heathrow Airport.
Arrived in the UK but refused entry due to lack of refugee documents
Transfer back to Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport.
French authorities also tried to deport him, but he did not know
where to send the 'stateless', so he left him in an airport terminal,
where he lived until 2006. him first.
A scene from the Hollywood movie
'Terminal' (2004).
I had a hard time sleeping in a red plastic chair at the airport
and taking a shower at the staff facility.
In his spare time, he read magazines and observed people,
nicknamed 'Sir Alfred' by his staff.
He was granted refugee status in France in 1999,
but has since decided to stay at the airport.
People who made friends with him at the airport said
his long terminal life had a great psychological impact on him.
In the 1990s, a doctor at the airport said he was "fossilized here,"
and staff likened him to "a prisoner unable to live outside."
Hollywood movie 'Terminal' (2004). SNS capture
Although he received a large sum from the film company,
the money he left behind was 'one million won'.
His story also inspired director Spielberg in Hollywood.
Although the 2004 film did not reflect a true story,
it is known that DreamWorks has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars
for the rights to the film.
Nasseri left the airport in 2006 with money he received from the film company,
but returned to the airport a few weeks before his death
after traveling to shelters and hotels in France.
Meanwhile, Germany's Deutsche Wele
(DW) reported on the same day that Nasseri
had received $250,000 (about 330 million won) from
DreamWorks through an obituary. However, what was found in
Nasseri, who died at the airport, was only a
few thousand euros (2~3millions of won).
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