Facing Turkey, Lesbos, the Greek vacation island in the Aegean Sea, became in 2015 the hotspot of a massive flow of refugees mostly from Syria and Afghanistan.
Every day, boatloads of people fleeing war and poverty landed days and nights on the shores of the island after paying traffickers sums of nearly 1,000 euros each.
Cramped on inflatable rubber dinghies, dilapitaded yachts and flimsy homemade fiberglass boats, thousands of passengers risk their lives on a 12 kms short but dangerous voyage to Europe.