The Terminal

I'm sure most of you have seen the movie The Terminal, what some of you may not know is that this movie was based on a true story of an Iranian man named Mehran Karimi Nasseri who has been living in the Charles de Gaulle Airport since 1988. He has been waiting for a flight out of France for more than ten years now. Nasseri was held by immigration at the airport for not having the proper documents which were stolen from him when he got mugged at a train station. Since he had no documentation there was no country to send him to and France has kept him in terminal one ever since. As years have passed by it has been believed that Mehran will probably never leave Charles de Gaulle Airport as his stay there has affected his psychological state; Mehran who is reffered to by many as Sir Alfred has refused his origins claiming he is not an iranian and claims that he doesn't speak persian even though he understands it completely. In 1999 he was given papers to sign which would allow him to go anywhere in europe to which he refused because of the psychological effects this has had on him. It is sad to know that we live in a society that would do such a thing to another human being.