Mehran Karimi Nasseri

Mehran Karimi Nasseri (Persian مهران کریمی ناصری [ meɦrɔ ː n k ʲ AERI ː mi ː nɔ ː serial ː ]; according to some information also Merhan; * 1942 in masjed Soleyman, Iran) is a man who lived for eighteen years in the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris.

Life

As Nasseri always are different information about its origin and history itself, it is not easy to trace his life. How secure is the information about his life, one can not say. The following information is taken from his book " The Terminal Man " and other sources. In his book As partly suspicious and self- contradictory events are addressed, the absolute safety is not given:

After studying in England, he was arrested for protests against the Iranian Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi regime in 1977 and later expelled from his native country. After a long odyssey through several European countries to refugee status was granted in Belgium. When he took a boat crossing from Belgium to England, he sent the papers that identified him as a refugee, back to Brussels, in the assumption that he no longer needed. This turned out to be a fatal error. In England rejected him without papers. The authorities of England and Belgium sent him several times back and forth. Eventually, he was stranded in France then.

Even he told all reporters a different story: He then flew to Paris in 1988 with the intention to travel to London. However, his travel documents were stolen in Paris - Nasseri could not prove now even his status as a refugee identity. In London, his entry was therefore rejected and he was sent back to Paris, where they were forbidden him to enter France.

As Nasseri could not specify a country of origin without his papers, it was impossible to expel him. As a stateless person he addressed in the following years in Terminal 1 of the airport Charles de Gaulle, where he lived from August 1988 to August 2006, when he allegedly had to be rushed to the hospital because of an unspecified illness.

The French lawyer Christian Bourguet took over his case and could reach a 1999 court decision that Nasseri allowed to enter France. Nasseri it however, refused to sign the entry documents - he called himself now " Sir, Alfred Mehran " (although he is not Sir), the papers denominated but on his Iranian birth name.

Terminal end of 2004 was launched in Germany, a film by Steven Spielberg, based on the fate Nasseri. Tom Hanks plays the role of a stateless person, but the person represented and their homeland are fictitious. Nasseri has received 275,000 dollars for his story, but it refused steadfastly to leave his longtime home, the terminal 1.

Mehran Karimi Nasseri According to press reports should be drawn after his hospitalization in March 2007 in a Parisian homeless shelter.