Iranian man who inspired film The Terminal dies in Paris airport 

The terminal 1 was his home. He returned there and rest in peace. He knew his friends at the airport would take care of him. Everybody has their own definition of home.

Being able to endure for so long. This is true inner strength. I honestly cannot even imagine an existence like that.

I mean the airport seems better than living in a shelter so I can understand why he returned.

Mehran Karimi Naseri, who was 77 years old at the time of his death, somehow became a symbol for the displacement and exile of millions of Iranian refugees around the world.He was a lost soul Rest in Peace Sir Alfred.

So now we know who is the real hero of the terminal.. R.I.P sir 🌷

I was on a greyhound bus from Phoenix to Flagstaff and was sitting next to a guy who had been living on Greyhound buses for over a year. He inherited money while homeless. First thing he did was travel across the country on the Greyhound bus because he was afraid of driving and never got a license. He said after that, with no house or place to call home, he traveled back across the country on the Greyhound. Then just kept buying tickets to different states and areas he didn't go through on his cross country trips. He had pics of himself at different terminals in a bunch of different states. He was a little off in the head you could tell, but was a good dude. I kept waiting to see if he gets noticed and stories about him start coming out but that was years ago now.

What a shameful thing for bureaucrats to do . His humanity and vulnerability shames them. Was there not one millionaire Iranian or one French lawmaker in France who could have lifted a finger to help this poor man?

Who else is here because they saw a short about Tom Hanks movie the terminal? and didn’t know this was based on a true story.

R.I.P. Mehran Kamari Nasseri 1945 - 2022

He seems very humble and genuine.

He had made a lot of money than anyone doing day to day work, with just staying in the airport. I think that's the life he chose and quite satisfied with it unlike people who wanted more but never get the satisfaction. Everyone of us has our own fulfillment level and I think he found his.

Rest In Peace Sir.❤️

Rest In Peace, Sir Alfred.

people forget that he refused to accept his papers because they weren't in the name of Sir Alfred, he was telling people he was a British native then a Canadian Native, when his family came to visit him he pretended not to know them. He had said he was trying to get to Britain to find his long lost mother but his mother was Iranian and even came to visit him but he pretended not to know her. Even the events of his protests were apparently exaggerated. For whatever reason he wanted a new identity and when he got stuck in CDG Airport and became well known for it, he realised that was his identity. They even found out that he had actually mailed his passport and documents somewhere randomly so that he would have no identity when he arrived. He was clearly trying to leave his old life behind and make a new identity. He even claimed he was knighted, hence the 'Sir'. He was so beholden to the new identity that it was why he refused to sign any papers in his old name.

He was a priceless person. World especially France didn't regard respect n helped him.

Rest in Peace Sir Alfred!!!!

The comb over tells me, he nerver gives up. Even when all is lost.

Very Sad ending for the man who inspired Tom Hanks character in The Terminal.

He never find his beloved mother cause of the brutality against him by the UK and France RIP 🌹 Nasseri was born in 1945 in Soleiman - a part of Iran, then under British jurisdiction - to an Iranian father and a British mother. He left Iran to study in England in 1974. When he returned, he said, he was imprisoned for protesting against the Shah and expelled without a passport. He applied for political asylum in several countries in Europe. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Belgium gave him refugee credentials, but he said his briefcase containing the refugee certificate was stolen at a Paris train station.

Very sad ending

I heard that, about 45minutes ago there has been terror in Taksim and 4 people have died, RIP for all of our Turkish Turk brothers that have lost their life😔🙏

I m concerned about the public security in turkey after seeing economic crisis and terrorist attacks 😥🇹🇷

May he rest in peace !

Man I can’t picture living in an airport

His story itself helped make someone millions yet nothing has been spent for his freedom!

Rest in peace Sir.

Rest In Peace Sir Alfred 😢

What he did for living in the airport?

I got terminal for 7-11 days.

Welcome home, Sir. So long.

Unprecedented that this man endured better in an airport than he did in Iran.

It's so weird that he intentionally mailed his documentation to Belgium, which lead to all those years living in terminal 1. When asked about it, he could never provide a reasonable answer as to why he did it. That's the part that I don't get.

RIP those six people that died in Istanbul bombings. So sad that TRT failed to take note of this.

So sad. Why are there so many injustices and hardship in this world, God?

I suppose this is what happens when you ignore people with mental illness and just let them fend for themselves.

This man is the Guru of all beggars and homeless people.

The movie didn't show he was Iranian

RIP to those who died in bomb blast in turkey, very poor handling by the government

RIP😔😪

Rip

Sad.

Rest in peace sir 🙏

It's like with prisoners that get released after a 50 year sentence.. they been locked up so long that all they know.. and feel safe where they are.. I guess he just felt safe because he's been there so long he knows they building and the people..

What I don’t understand is how the authorities didn’t remove him from the airport..it was a different era I guess. Nowadays, He would either be deported or be treated as a refugee or something else

"Keep coming back it works if you work it cuz your worth it." ~ AA mantra

Right now, our Abbas Lisani is in prison in Iran, which European state or US say that why is he in prison?

What happened to this man was a crime, and humanity must bear the shame of it

Shame on this inhuman n cruel world

Couldn't he have returned to Iran after Shah was deposed?

Hodo rahmat

This is very Shameful to France & EU & I'm glad he rejected their final shameful help

Shawshank redemption... Red said : These walls are funny, first you hate them, and you get used to them. Enough time passes get so your depend on them.

🇫🇷🇪🇺The Terminal good movie had no idea an Iranian man was behind the inspiration of the film 🎥 🍿

What happened to the $250,000 ??

Shame on France who left him 18years and didn't help him, but why not after they killed 2millions Algerian with cold blood.

I heard that he finally went back to Krakozhiya and that he also found love in cabin crew ✈️

How do you get on a airplane without a passport?

He got institutionalized that's why he returned.

He returned to the terminal, but his heart wasn't in it anymore 😂😂

R.I.P. sir Alfred

TRT is giving news of whole world but not about bomb blast happened in Turkey 🦃

8 days was all I could tolerate 🥶🥶

Honest question, where is his body resting now that he has passed?

TRT is more concerned about a foreigner's security in a foreign airport than it's own people in it's own country's streets, what a shame

"Isn't it ironic don't you think?"

What happened to 250K?

Rest in peace...

Nice cover

Saw the documentary. He was so full of it. Clinically insane. Should have been deported to Iran the 1st week.

he preferred the airport "home" and eventually died there!!

If this guy is not a political refugee, who is?

Sad 😭😢

A legend

On exile he lived on the airport for 18years because of the wickedness of some Iranian leaders. For me Iran is hell on earth such an evil country. May Yahweh have mercy on Iran RIP.

The French didn’t help this man because they don’t understand Humanitè Dignité and Libertè obviously

So very tragic

Well first of all RIP , he could have been accepting the France political asylum offer and once becoming French citizen could have been moving to England, but wasting his life in Airport without anything was a wrong decision. but anyway he is no more so may Lord Bless his soul .

This is traumatic

Rest In peace

I wonder were his going to get buried, may Allah give him paradise

He looks like Walid Jumblatt.

What he did to 250k usd .. this man can buy house already

😅30 seconds in and at least two "facts" wrong. Sad

Very sad. Iran govt has been brutal

The Terminal was a very nice Xmas movie, but after reading the actual story, one can say that changes made against tge true story are cheesy, silly, and ridiculous.

oh so he was granted immigration rights after all

A secret admirer

Things like legal limbo are exactly why people ant say goverments work, and shoes that we are missing sting on comon sense and moral rather then like robots, if this thing can happen longer then a month you have so many people who could have helped in there possition (there job) but didnt who need to be shamed until they change there ways, but problem is we dont shame or force anymore, we try to plea when thats censored or ignored or controled, and then we step back afria to break the rules, the world is broken and should eithr be accepted as such and given up on or FORCED TO CHANGE with every willing persons physical and mental embodiment of willnnot letting those in control exist without fixing whats broken, lest they be replaced if not worse.

rip.

French the neo nepolian Zionist 🥶

How cruel to do this to him . Meanwhile germany took in millions. Why did not Germany take him ?

So why didn't he buy a house with the $250k?

Most prisoners commit crime and caught on purpose to return to prison.

They profited off this man and left him homeless it just shows what our worlds lacks “Humanity”😡

It's safe to say he didn't get a dime from the movie!

❤️❤️❤️

What Prompted Him To Pre Fer Thé Charles De gauLLE Airport ? It Is Like A Huge HoteL ! Where He Does Not ! DeaL with Any Response ! To Pay For . Only He Is Not Charling himself As A DeBonAire .

Who could live in such a transient place.

Rip :(