Shutting the doors
Ten years after Europe's migration crisis, the fallout reverberates in Greece and beyond
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Tiny shoes and empty juice boxes with faded Turkish labels can still be found on the northern coast. So can black doughnut-shaped inner tubes, given by smugglers as crude life preservers for children. At Moria of Lesbos, a refugee camp destroyed by fire in 2020, children's drawings remain on gutted building walls.
Those who died crossing to Lesbos are buried in two cemeteries, their graves marked as "unknown".
Agencies via Xinhua