The persian national lost the papers confirming his refugee status during a stopover in the Paris airport in 1988. That meant he could neither travel on nor leave the airport, leading him to set up a life in Terminal 1.He spent years appealing for the right to be accepted into another country before finally getting a French visa in 1999. However, he continued living, even after that, in the space he had set up for himself under an airport escalator.
