Lesbos: a paradise-like Greek island overshadowed by the migration crisis

Lesbos, the Greek island of olive trees, steep mountain roads and stray cats sleeping beneath the plastic chairs of tavernas. The island where men drink ouzo together in the early afternoon, a cigarette in hand, has become a place where hospitality and scepticism go hand in hand. Since 2014, when rubber dinghies carrying refugees from Turkey first reached the coast of Lesbos, the atmosphere has slowly changed. Discontent now prevails.

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