Explaining on Instagram: "Mehran Karimi Nasseri Mehran Karimi Nasseri was an Iranian refugee who became famous for living in the departure lounge of Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris for 18 years, from 1988 until 2006. 😮✈️ His extraordinary situation began when he arrived at the airport without proper documentation and got stuck in a legal limbo: unable to enter France, unable to be deported, with no country willing to accept him. Over time, Terminal 1 became his home — a red-bench perch, a su