*✈️ The Man Who Lived in Terminal 1 of Charles de Gaulle Airport from 1988 until 2006.*

*✈️ The Man Who Lived in Terminal 1 of Charles de Gaulle Airport from 1988 until 2006.* *If you thought your layover was bad, try being this guy ... He missed 18 years of his life!* *Mehran Karimi Nasseri, born in 1945 in Iran 🇮🇷,* became famous for an extraordinary story of being trapped in legal limbo at *Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris.* *Due to missing identification papers, he was unable to leave the airport, and so began an incredible 18-year stay inside the terminal.* *Mehran was an Iranian refugee traveling to London, but he lost his papers in transit.* Because he had no passport, France 🇫🇷 wouldn't let him leave the airport, and England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 wouldn't let him enter. Befriended airport staff *He was trapped in a legal "no-man's-land."* He wasn't technically in France 🇫🇷 , he was just... nowhere. So, he settled in. *For nearly two decades, he slept on a red plastic bench, showered in the public restrooms, and lived off food 🥘 coupons given to him by airport staff.* *During his time there, Nasseri :* Studied economics. *Wrote his memoir, “The Terminal Man.”* *His unique story inspired the 2004 Steven Spielberg film “The Terminal”, starring Tom Hanks.* Sadly, Mehran Karimi Nasseri passed away in 2022, at the very airport where he had lived so many years of his life. *A story of resilience, human spirit, and the complexities of bureaucracy.*