It is minus 7 degrees on the coldest night of the week. And for the first time since the commotion this summer, homeless people are again allowed to spend the night in the Brussels South station. There are still insufficient shelters in the capital for the 800 people who sleep on the streets. We were there, with frozen fingers and toes, and noticed that spending the night in a station is actually not much different from outside. “There is heating everywhere here, you can see that, right? Why isn’t it on?”
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Our reporter among the homeless in Brussels South on the coldest night of the year: “Five layers and a sleeping bag, and then I still freeze”
