- According to the City Council of Vitoria-Gasteiz, in the early hours of Wednesday a person had to be evicted from the Jundiz landfill, apparently after falling from the interior of a waste collection truck. The homeless slept in a container to protect themselves from the cold of these days.
In many parts of Vitoria-Gasteiz, thermometers surrendered from zero during the night of Tuesday to Wednesday. At 4:25 a.m., a municipal cleaning truck immediately intercepted the discharge of garbage in the pit of the Jundiz biocompost plant, seeing that it had not only dumped waste, but also dumped a person. After being rescued, he was transferred to a hospital center with leg injuries.
According to the City Hall of Vitoria-Gasteiz, the 21-year-old man had no documentation of the event. Apparently, while searching for food, the homeless decided to stay in one of the city's containers to protect themselves from the cold of these days, until the truck unknowingly surprised him.
During this harsh winter, the situation of homeless people becomes more apparent, as they are forced to seek refuge because of the cold. A 56-year-old man was found dead on 7 January last in a car in Hendaia, according to the Local Police of Hendaia, could have spent the night and suffered a cardiac arrest due to the cold. On 25 December, on the other hand, in Zarautz, another person appeared dead in a park, amid the bad weather he did that night.