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Friday, August 13, 2004

# Posted 10:01 AM by Patrick Belton  

16 YEARS LIVED IN TERMINAL ONE OF CHARLES DE GAULLE AIRPORT: Mehran Karimi Nasser was born in Iran and educated in Britain. He then was expelled from Iran without a passport for demonstrating against the Shah. In 1981, he was granted refugee credentials by the U.N. High Commission for Refugees in Belgium - but his briefcase, and the credentials, were stolen in a Paris train station. In August 1988, he turned up at Charles de Gaulle without a passport hoping to fly to Britain. With no country to which he could be deported, he has lived in Terminal One ever since.

For other perspectives on this Kafkaesque existence on a red bench in an airport, see this and this.
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