Things Can Only Get Better?

Last month on our blog, we brought your attention to a short film that the UK's Channel 4 had broadcast about the living conditions of many of Bucharest's homeless in the sewers under Bucharest's main railway station. If you missed it, you can watch the video again here.

The video portrayed a life of drugs, crime and misfortune for the residents of these compacted tunnels under the EU's 7th biggest city. For most, it was harrowing and hard to watch and showed the reality of what the Romanian government is choosing to ignore on its own streets.

Less than one month after broadcasting the report, Channel 4 returned to Bucharest to follow up on one of the fallen from the initial report.

It's impossible to know what will happen next to Bruce Lee and his gang. Since the original report, BTG have heard of different ways in which the government has attempted to deal with the situation. Reports of sending smoke bombs down the sewers to flush out the residents were met, quite rightly, with protests from human rights organisations. Now that Channel 4 has once again reported on the desperate situation, we can be sure that the government will have to respond somehow. Let's hope it will be sooner rather than later before another of these angels falls...