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Iranian who inspired The Terminal film dies at Paris airport
Mehran Karimi Nasseri, 76, lived in Charles de Gaulle Airport for 18 years and died from a coronary heart assault in Terminal 2F.
An Iranian man who lived for 18 years in Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport and whose saga loosely impressed the Steven Spielberg movie The Terminal has died within the airport that he lengthy known as house.
Mehran Karimi Nasseri, 76, died on Saturday after a coronary heart assault within the airport’s Terminal 2F round noon, in line with an official with the Paris airport authority. Police and a medical workforce handled him however weren’t in a position to save him.
Nasseri lived within the airport’s Terminal 1 from 1988 till 2006, first in authorized limbo as a result of he lacked residency papers and later, apparently by selection.
He slept on a purple plastic bench surrounded by containers of newspapers and magazines and showered in employees services. He spent his time writing in his diary, studying magazines, finding out economics, and surveying passing travellers.
Workers nicknamed him Lord Alfred, and he turned a mini-celebrity amongst passengers.
“Finally, I’ll go away the airport,” he instructed The Related Press in 1999, smoking a pipe on his bench, trying frail with lengthy skinny hair, sunken eyes and hole cheeks. “However I’m nonetheless ready for a passport or transit visa.”
Nasseri was born in 1945 in Soleiman, part of Iran then beneath British jurisdiction, to an Iranian father and a British mom. He left Iran to review in England in 1974. When he returned, he mentioned, he was imprisoned for protesting in opposition to the shah and expelled and not using a passport.
He utilized for political asylum in a number of nations in Europe, together with the UK, however was rejected. Finally, the UN refugee company in Belgium gave him refugee credentials, however he mentioned his briefcase containing the refugee certificates was stolen at a Paris prepare station.
French police later arrested him, however couldn’t deport him wherever as a result of he had no official paperwork. He ended up at Charles de Gaulle in August 1988, the place he stayed.
Additional bureaucratic bungling and more and more strict European immigration legal guidelines saved him in a authorized no-man’s land for years.
When he lastly obtained refugee papers, he described his shock – and his insecurity – about leaving the airport, the authority official mentioned. He reportedly refused to signal them and ended up staying there a number of extra years till he was hospitalised in 2006, and later lived in a Paris shelter.
Those that befriended him within the airport mentioned the years of dwelling within the windowless area took a toll on his psychological state. The airport physician within the Nineteen Nineties anxious about his bodily and psychological well being, and described him as “fossilised right here.” A ticket agent buddy in contrast him to a prisoner incapable of “dwelling on the surface”.
Within the weeks earlier than his loss of life, Nasseri had gone again to dwelling at Charles de Gaulle.
Nasseri’s mind-boggling story loosely impressed Steven Spielberg’s 2004 film The Terminal starring Tom Hanks, in addition to a French movie Misplaced in Transit, and an opera known as Flight.
In The Terminal, Hanks performs Viktor Navorski, a person who arrives at JFK airport in New York from the fictional japanese European nation of Krakozhia and discovers an in a single day political revolution has invalidated all his travelling papers. Navorski is dumped into the airport’s worldwide lounge and instructed he should keep there till his standing is sorted out, which drags on as unrest in Krakozhia continues.
In accordance with the New York Instances, Spielberg bought the rights to Nasseri’s life story by means of his manufacturing firm DreamWorks, paying roughly $250,000.
Nasseri additionally wrote an autobiography titled The Terminal Man printed in 2004.
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Mexican mayor murdered less than a week after taking office
The mayor of a state capital in southern Mexico has been killed just one week after he took office, officials said Sunday.
Alejandro Arcos was sworn in last Monday as mayor of Chilpancingo, a city so violent that a drug gang openly staged a demonstration, hijacked a government armored car and took police hostage in 2023 to win the release of arrested suspects.
Chilpancingo is the capital of Guerrero state, where Acapulco is located.
The state prosecutors’ office issued a statement Sunday confirming Arcos had been killed, but provided no details.
SHOOTING NEAR LUXURY MEXICO RESORT LEAVES 1 DEAD, SUSPECTS FLEE ON JET SKIS Alejandro Moreno, the national leader of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, lamented Arcos’ killing and said the newly installed secretary of the city council had also been murdered three days earlier.
“They had been in office less than a week,” Moreno wrote on his social media accounts. “They were young and honest public servants who were seeking progress for their community.”
Chilpancingo has long been the scene of bloody turf battles between two drug gangs, the Ardillos and the Tlacos. The battle has resulted in dozens of gruesome killings and some high-profile scandals.
A previous mayor was caught on video apparently holding a meeting with leaders of one of the gangs at a restaurant. She was subsequently expelled from her party. In July 2023, federal officials said a demonstration held by hundreds of people in Chilpancingo that month had been organized by the Ardillos gang to win the release of two gang leaders arrested for drugs and weapons possession.
The demonstrators largely blocked all traffic on the highway between Mexico City and Acapulco for two days, battled security forces and commandeered a police armored truck and used it to ram down the gates of the state legislature building.
The demonstrators abducted 10 members of the state police and National Guard, as well as three state and federal officials, and held them hostage to enforce their demands before releasing them.
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Borrell-to-Kallas: Will EU lose its balance in its Middle East policy?
How can the EU break the current deadlock in the Middle East? And what stance can we expect from the EU’s next top diplomat, Kaja Kallas? Radio Schuman spoke to Martin Konecny, director of the European Middle East Project.
Monday marked a year since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, which led Brussels to repeat its calls for a ceasefire and the immediate release of hostages.
One year later, Europe is still not on the same page, and in just a few weeks, Kaja Kallas, the former Estonian prime minister, will become the EU’s new foreign policy chief.
But Kallas is known to be less committed and outspoken on the Middle East than the current High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borell.
So, what can we expect from Kallas, and how can the EU break the current deadlock in the Middle East? Martin Konecny, director of the European Middle East Project, an independent civil society hub on EU policy towards Israel and Palestine is our guest today.
On the EU’s daily menu, get ready for a first taste of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
Ahead of his big speech on Wednesday outlining his vision for Hungary’s six-month turn at the EU’s rotating presidency, Orbán will hold a press conference with MEP Kinga Gál at 2:30 pm today that could steal some of the limelight from a parliamentary debate on the EU’s car industry and… himself.
Lastly, Radio Schuman dives into one of the EU’s toughest challenges: a serious shortage of doctors, nurses and other healthcare pros. Curious about which countries rely most on foreign medical staff? Here’s a hint: Northern Europe’s where to look.
You can read the full story on Euronews Health.
Radio Schuman is hosted and produced by Maïa de la Baume, with journalist and production assistant Paula Soler, audio editing by Zacharia Vigneron and music by Alexandre Jas.
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