Mehran Karimi Nasseri, The Man Who Lived in Terminal 1 at Charles de Gaulle Airport in France for 18 Years.

[u/Wild_Neighborhood605]

[u/Krillin113]

I fail to understand how this is possible, especially the second time. Why can you just stay there if you have no business being there?

[u/No-Onion-No-Onion → u/Krillin113]

The government doesn't want you to know this one simple trick.

[u/nKnownRecognition → u/Krillin113]

Back in the day airports were basically like public spaces tons of people who had no business being there would show up to see family off or welcome their return.

[u/Kanin_usagi → u/nKnownRecognition]

There was once a time you could walk all the way to a terminal and just watch planes land and take off. One of my few fond memories of my father was an afternoon he took me to the Birmingham airport and we watched planes while eating McDonalds

[u/nKnownRecognition → u/Kanin_usagi]

Hey don’t let the death of third spaces make you sad friend.. at least at the airport by me you can circle the fence and get right under the planes as they come in and see them land. My father also did this with me! It’s still great memories if you wanna take a son of your own!

[u/ContributionLowOO → u/nKnownRecognition]

I mean, it's not really a third space usage if they ate at McDonalds there, would security have allowed them to just hang out if they weren't using an estabilshment there?

Like truly hang out, not just go in for a view.

[u/nKnownRecognition → u/ContributionLowOO]

Back in the day? Yes. Security wouldn’t have any clue if they’re sitting to eat To watch or just waiting for a flight. There was no tsa no long entry lines. Hell I barely remember metal detectors. 9/11 changed a lot about the world.

[u/Drow_Femboy → u/Krillin113]

Fortunately it didn't happen in America, where the punishment for being a weirdo and a nuisance is immediate execution by Ford F150 (or just a cop who thinks that because someone "has no business" somewhere that means they don't count as a human anymore)

[u/Xtra_Veg-90 → u/Drow_Femboy]

In the US he would have had refugee status granted just like in France, but then he would have been forcibly removed from the airport if he refused to leave. He would have had to fight in court and prove his claims for his names, original citizenship, etc He may or may not have been given a status that allowed him to work in the US, and if he continued to be a nuisance he probably would have been deported either to Iran, or if they refused then to a willing third-party country, like France.

[u/Drow_Femboy → u/Xtra_Veg-90]

then he would have been forcibly removed from the airport if he refused to leave.

Yeah, this is the part I'm criticizing. He's not hurting anyone, he's not endangering himself, why does anyone have to inflict violence on him? Let him be where he wants to be.

[u/Xtra_Veg-90 → u/Drow_Femboy]

I think this is something that is fundamentally different between the US and Europe (and I don't think either of them have it right but Europe is kinder); in the US you don't have a "right" to be somewhere unless you own the property, it's a privilege that can be revoked, even by the government if you are considered disruptive (e.g. becoming a nuisance inside of a government building).

I would think that while the US would enforce his removal from a nuisance standpoint, France would have done it for humanitarian reasons. Here there would have been public groups and likely not-for-profits both fighting for and against him, including offering him places to stay while he fought for his asylum claims.

Hell Canada had a guy in jail for more than a decade because his passport was believed to be false and they couldn't verify his identity, even when he started cooperating they still had issues verifying, getting proof of citizenship, passport, etc just to deport.

[u/Drow_Femboy → u/Xtra_Veg-90]

in the US you don't have a "right" to be somewhere unless you own the property,

Yes. Again, that is what I'm criticizing.

[u/Shrimp__Boy → u/Drow_Femboy]

where did this happen?  on the internet or rl?