Mehran Karimi Nasseri arrived without papers at Charles de Gaulle airport in 1988 and didn’t leave until 2006. We shared its metal benches, a bomb scare and many, many Filets-O-Fish
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Mehran Karimi Nasseri, 76, whose life inspired Steven Spielberg s film The Terminal, died from a heart attack in Paris Charles de Gaulle airport on Saturday