Merhan Karimi Nasseri died after suffering a heart attack in Terminal 2F of the airport around noon, according to a Paris airport authority official. Police and a medical team treated him but could not save him, the official said. The official was not authorized to be named publicly. Karimi Nasseri, believed to have been born in 1945, lived in the airport’s Terminal 1 from 1988 to 2006, first in a legal vacuum because he had no residency papers and later by choice, according to French media reports. He had been living at the airport again in recent weeks, the airport official said. His saga inspired “The Terminal” starring Tom Hanks and a French film.
