Mehran Karimi Nasseri
Mehran Karimi Nasseri [ meɦˈrɔːn kʲæriːˈmiː nɔːseˈriː ] ( ) ( Persian مهران کریمی ناصری; according to some sources also Merhan ; * 1942 in Masjed Soleyman , Iran ) is a man who lived at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris for eighteen years .
Life
Since Nasseri himself repeatedly gives different information about his origin and history, it is not easy to trace his life path. How certain the information about his life is cannot be said. The following information was taken from his book Der Terminalmann and other sources. Since contradicting events are addressed in his book, there is no valid representation:
After studying in England , he was arrested in 1977 for protests against the Iranian Shah regime under Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and later expelled from his home country. After a lengthy odyssey through several European countries, he was granted refugee status in Belgium . On embarking on a boat trip from Belgium to England, he sent the papers identifying him as a refugee back to Brussels , assuming he no longer needed them. This turned out to be a fatal mistake. In England he was turned away without papers. The authorities of England and Belgium sent him back and forth several times. He ended up stranded in France .
He himself told a different story to all reporters: After that, he flew to Paris in 1988 with the intention of going to London . In Paris, however, his travel documents were stolen - Nasseri was now unable to prove his status as a refugee or his identity . In London his entry was therefore refused and he was sent back to Paris, where he was also banned from entering France.
Residence status problem
Since Nasseri could not prove his country of origin without his papers, it was impossible to expel him. In the years that followed, he settled in Terminal 1 at Charles de Gaulle Airport , where he lived from August 1988 to August 2006, when he allegedly had to be hospitalized for an unspecified illness.
The French lawyer Christian Bourguet took over his case and was able to obtain a court ruling in 1999 that allowed Nasseri to enter France. However, Nasseri refused to sign the entry documents - he now called himself "Sir, Alfred Mehran" (although he is not a Sir and with a wrong comma), but the papers were in his Iranian maiden name.
According to press reports, Mehran Karimi Nasseri is said to have moved to a homeless shelter in Paris in March 2007 after his hospital stay.
Trivia
Terminal , a film by Steven Spielberg based on Nasseri's fate , opened in Germany at the end of 2004 . Tom Hanks plays the role of the homeless, but the portrayed person and their homeland are fictional. Nasseri has received $ 275,000 for his story but steadfastly refused to leave his longtime home, Terminal 1.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nasseri, Mehran Karimi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Merhan, Alfred Sir (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iranian man who lived for eighteen years in the Paris "Charles de Gaulle" airport |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Masjed Soleyman , Iran |