On Europe’s hardened frontier, Greek island keeps migrants at bay

By Edward McAllister and Vania Turner

LONDON (Reuters) -Sailing in the June sunshine off the island of Lesbos, Greek fisherman Thanos Marmarinos remembers how he saved migrant women and children whose dinghy was breaking up in a gale one night ten years ago.

Initially, when he received the midnight call, he was reluctant to leave his bed. The winds were bitterly cold, and he had already been on one rescue mission that evening – thousands of migrantswere arriving in rickety boats every day at…