‘Angels’ to the rescue in a city of millionaires

Volunteers distributing food, hot drinks, and clothing outside a train station in Milan, on Feb 8. Six homeless people have died in the Italian city in recent weeks, highlighting the widening inequality as the Games unfold there. — Alessandro Grassani/The New York Times

SHORTLY before 10pm on Sunday night, volunteers dressed in scarlet wind­breakers and blue berets climbed the stairs to Platform 12 at a train station northeast of Milan’s city centre.

As they do every week, they checked on five men huddled there on thin mats and under quilts and blankets.