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The Straight Dope: Has a guy been stuck in the Paris airport since 1988 for lack of the right papers?

...According to the Sept. 27, 1999 New York Times, Nasseri has now been granted permission to leave the Paris airport. But he doesn't want to go. He was still there as of Dec. 5, 2001, according to a brief report on that date in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. (I was unable to personally confirm this because my assistant Lenehan left Paris and went home, the slacker.) "He is mentally ill," Dr. Philippe Bargain, the airport's medical director, is quoted as saying.

[via - The Straight Dope]