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This is a really famous case and is fairly Kafkaesque. It comes down to this: > In 1992, a French court ruled that having entered the country legally, he coul

This is a really famous case and is fairly Kafkaesque. It comes down to this: > In 1992, a French court ruled that having entered the country legally, he could not be expelled from the airport, but it could not grant him permission to enter France. He was legally stuck at the airport with no options from 1988 to 1995 when Belgium said they would take him. After that he stayed due to stubbornness in refusing to sign bureaucratic papers that did not represent his mental truth, which was affected by the years trapped and made him a bit off in the head like it would anyone. So he remained stuck. He never could afford to stay at the airport. He was trapped there by bureaucrats. Humanists recognizing his dilemma gave him food.

blondin 4y ago
first time hearing this story. what a sad one from all sides! we need to do better.
netsharc 4y ago
Reading his Wikipedia, I wonder if he was of sound mind even before being trapped there. Things like his unproven claim of being expelled from Iran, "losing" his documents because he mailed them to Brussels... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri
ClumsyPilot 4y ago
It is amazing how callous and capricious our 'ryle of law' can be if you are the wrong kind of person. And is one thing when evil is commited out of hatred, or for profit. That I can understand. But this is worse - this evil was commited for no reason at all! Nobody benefits from it and noone asked for it! This is a massive stain on all of civilisad society.
- downrightmike 4y ago
  Good movie though.
dotancohen 4y ago
> Humanists recognizing his dilemma gave him food. It would seem that by not providing him food, hunger would have driven him to take the Belgian deal. Call me callous, but by making one's bad situation comfortable, often the result is that the person stays in that bad situation instead of improving it.

blondin 4y ago

first time hearing this story. what a sad one from all sides! we need to do better.

netsharc 4y ago

Reading his Wikipedia, I wonder if he was of sound mind even before being trapped there. Things like his unproven claim of being expelled from Iran, "losing" his documents because he mailed them to Brussels... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehran_Karimi_Nasseri

ClumsyPilot 4y ago

It is amazing how callous and capricious our 'ryle of law' can be if you are the wrong kind of person. And is one thing when evil is commited out of hatred, or for profit. That I can understand. But this is worse - this evil was commited for no reason at all! Nobody benefits from it and noone asked for it! This is a massive stain on all of civilisad society.

downrightmike 4y ago
Good movie though.

dotancohen 4y ago

> Humanists recognizing his dilemma gave him food. It would seem that by not providing him food, hunger would have driven him to take the Belgian deal. Call me callous, but by making one's bad situation comfortable, often the result is that the person stays in that bad situation instead of improving it.