(20 Jun 2025)
RESTRICTIONS SUMMARY:
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Lesbos, Greece – 14 May 2025
1. Wide of abandoned shipwreck partially submerged in sea and rusting on rocky shore, at Akrotiri cape, near Sykamnia village
2. Mid of waves crashing against the rusted shipwreck
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Lesbos, Greece – 15 May 2025
3. Wide of numerous graves at cemetery for refugees
4. Close of gravestone marked "Unknown" in Greek and English
5. Wide of cemetery
6. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Stratos Valamios, fisherman: ++PART COVERED BY SHOTS 2, 3, 5 & 5, 7 & 8++
“The hard times were when there were shipwrecks, when we were collecting the babies who were drowning, when you saved the mother and the baby was drowning, when the baby was drowning and you saved the mother. And you would come here, and the mother would say, why did you save me and let the baby drown? Thousands, thousands have drowned."
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ARCHIVE: Lesbos, Greece – 28 October 2015
7. Mid of refugees on boat making peace signs as they approach shore near Skala Sykamnia village
8. Mid of rescue workers assisting migrants in life jackets
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ARCHIVE: Lesbos, Greece – 29 October 2015
9. Wide of abandoned life jackets near Skala Sykamnia village
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Lesbos, Greece – 14 May 2025
10. Wide of an abandoned life jacket on rocky shore
11. Wide of a discarded tire, used as life jacket, among rocks and debris
12. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Stratos Valamios, fisherman: ++PART COVERED BY SHOTS 10, 11 & 12++
“The only thing I feel is not that I was scared or that I wanted a psychologist. The only thing I feel is anger, you understand?”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lesbos, Greece – 15 May 2025
13. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Stratos Valamios, fisherman:
“That such things can happen, that babies can drown. They’re just numbers. Nobody cares.”
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Lesbos, Greece – 12 May 2025
14. Various of refugee Soheib Shehk from Pakistan working at a sewing machine on the ‘Safe Passage’ support initiative workshop
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Soheib Shehk, refugee: ++PART COVERED BY SHOTS 14 & 15++
"There was chaos in Pakistan, like everyday bomb blasting and stuff, firing and stuff like that. So, I was mixed in in this kind of stuff. It was, the trip was nothing that difficult. I was pretty young also like maybe 17 or maybe something like that, 16 or something. So, yeah, that didn't feel that much difficult and life-threatening."
17. Various of Shehk showing products
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lesbos, Greece – 13 May 2025
16. Various of Mavrovouni refugee camp
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Efi Latsoudi, activist, Lesbos Solidarity director: ++PART COVERED BY SHOTS 18 & 20++
“Camps should be a very temporary and a very short-term solution for refugees and for any person. At the same time, we have a society that is more calm, because they don't see the refugees so much, but we don't know what will happen if the policies change.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lesbos, Greece – 13 May 2025
18. Wide of rows of white temporary housing units ... [truncated]
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