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Lesbos, Greece – 14 May 2025
1. Various of coastline, including drone shots ++PART MUTE++
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ARCHIVE: Lesbos, Greece – 28 October 2015
2. Wide of rescue workers guiding a boat of migrants and refugees to shore near the village of Skala Sykamnia, around 40 kilometers north of the main port of Mytilene
3. Wide of rescue workers assisting migrants off the crowded boat
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ARCHIVE: Lesbos, Greece – 29 October 2015
4. Close-up of man on boat making peace signs; pulls out to show wide of boat reaching shore and rescue workers assisting migrants
5. Rescue worker carrying child ashore
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ARCHIVE: Lesbos, Greece – 23 September 2019
6. Wide of alley full of tents at the makeshift camp next to the official camp at Moria
7. Mid of woman carrying cooked food, accompanied by child
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ARCHIVE: Lesbos, Greece – 15 May 2025
8. Wide of graves
9. Close-up of a gravestone with inscription for Faizollah Akida, a 9-year-old, drowned on Nov. 20, 2015
10. Wide of the cemetery with freshly dug graves in foreground
11. Wide of grave
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Lesbos, Greece – 14 May 2025
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Derek Gatopoulos, The Associated Press:
"Ten years ago, this rocky stretch of coastline on the Greek island of Lesbos was at the heart of Europe’s migration crisis. Just across the water – six miles away – lies Turkey. And these beaches here on Lesbos’s northern shore, became the main landing point for refugees and migrants trying to reach the European Union. Smuggling networks exploited the short sea route. And in 2015 and ‘16, the scale of the arrivals was staggering. Hundreds of thousands of people made the journey. Dozens of boats could land here on a single day. Most were fleeing war and upheaval in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan. But not everyone survived the trip. The crossing also brought countless accidents at sea – capsized boats, frantic rescues, and numerous drownings. These beaches, remote and normally quiet, became a symbol of the crisis: littered with life jackets left behind by those who made it across. The influx hammered the island’s tourism industry and triggered a political crisis. Countries across Europe tightened their borders. Asylum seekers were detained and public concern helped push many governments toward stricter migration policies. A decade later, northern Lesbos stands as a reminder – not just as being one of the busiest migration routes in recent history – but of the geographic, humanitarian, and political forces that collided here."
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ARCHIVE: Lesbos, Greece – 29 October 2015
13. Wide of discarded life jackets on shore as people guide a boat of migrants and refugees near the village of Skala Sykamnia
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Lesbos, Greece – 14 May 2025
14. Close-up of an abandoned life jacket on rocky shore
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Lesbos, Greece – 15 May 2025
15. Wide of the waterfront of Mytilene, the capital of Lesbos
16. Wide of pedestrians walking
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Lesbos, Greece – 13 May 2025
17. Close-up of Greek and EU flags
18. Woman speaking on phone walking near camp with flags in background
19. People seen behind cage of the Mavrovouni refugee camp which is currently being used
20. Wide of gate of camp being closed
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Lesbos, Greece – 14 May 2025
21. Wide of an abandoned shipwreck partially submerged in sea and rusting on the rocky shore at Akrotiri cape, on the outskirts of Sykamnia village
22. Mid of waves crashing against the rusted shipwreck
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