Man who lived in Charles de Gaulle airport for 18 years dies in airport

Iranian Merhan Karimi Nasseri inspired the Steven Spielberg film The Terminal, starring Tom Hanks

An Iranian man who lived for 18 years in Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport and inspired the 2004 Steven Spielberg film The Terminal died on Saturday in the airport, officials said.

Merhan Karimi Nasseri died after a heart attack in the airport’s Terminal 2F around midday, according an official with the Paris airport authority. Police and a medical team treated him but were not able to save him, the official said.

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