The Bucharest Police had a surprise in the early days of 2016 when they picked the homeless people off the streets to take them to the municipality’s shelters to protect them from the cold weather. One of the homeless persons they found was supposed to be under home arrest as he was investigated for theft. However, the man had no home and he hadn’t been living at his official address for several years, according to Digi24 news station.

The police took him to a social center in Bucharest where the man will remain until the authorities decide what to do next. The prosecutors may ask for his preventive arrest because he lied about his residence.

Until then, the man will get special treatment at the social center where he has a room all for himself while the other homeless people who stay there temporarily are placed five in a room. He gets a hot shower and three meals per day as the other people who go to the center, according to the center’s manager.

However, should he choose to leave the center he could do so as the people who work there don’t have the means to guard him or stop him.

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