The first transfers of migrants from Italy to the Gjader center in Albania are expected Thursday, converted by an Italian government decree from a processing centre as a migrant deterrent into an ordinary detention center for repatriation or CPR, Albanian port sources told ANSA Wednesday.

The courts stymied the detention of the first three batches of migrants set to be processed under the original innovative but controversial scheme.

The sources said that a ship with 15 migrants on board, departing from Brindisi, should reach the port of Shengjin in the afternoon, around 3 pm. In the evening, around 7 pm, the second ship is expected, with another 25 migrants.

In all, there will be about forty migrants, equal to the current capacity of the CPR set up inside the Gjader camp.

(Source: ANSA)