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Why was the man allowed to live in the airport?

Nasseri became trapped in a legal twilight zone. In the 1990s, the French authorities insisted that he was on French soil illegally, but they could not deport him because no country would accept him. In 1999, he got permission to leave the airport and go wherever he wished in Europe.



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The site chosen for the airport was over 12.5 square miles. This is huge for a European airport (for comparison, London Heathrow occupies around 4.7 square miles). The 747 was coming into service, so the airport was very much planned with large aircraft in mind.

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