MAN STUCK AT AIRPORT, LIKE TOM HANKS IN “TERMINAL”

A German man has been living at India’s Indira Gandhi International airport in New Delhi for the past 54 days, stuck in limbo due to the coronavirus pandemic. On March 18, Edgard Ziebat, 40, was traveling from Hanoi, Vietnam, to Istanbul, Turkey, with a changeover at the New Delhi airport. Unfortunately, the country canceled all flights to and from Turkey that same day. He wasn’t the only stranded passenger, and airport authorities alerted their respective embassies. But Ziebat is a wanted criminal in Germany, with active warrants out for his arrest for “several cases of assault and other crimes.” German officials won’t arrest him in India, since he’s on foreign land. But due to his criminal history, he’s ineligible for an Indian visa, which means that he can’t leave the airport to wait things out in that country. He’s now stuck in the airport until further notice. He sleeps on the beds, benches, on the floors, wherever he feels like. The case brings to mind the Tom Hanks move The Terminal, which was itself loosely based on the story of an Iranian man who was stuck in a Paris airport for 18 years.
* On the bright side, they might count this toward his jail time.
* If Indira Gandhi International airport has Cinnabon, he could be up by about 40 pounds.
* OMG – imagine the back pain from those airport chairs!
* Hey, at least he’s nowhere near those rampaging monkeys who are taking over office buildings.
* Better he’s stuck in “Terminal”, rather than “Larry Crowne” or “Cloud Atlas”. Those Tom Hanks movies sucked.