The Eleftherios Venezilos Athens Airport has received a new bomb threat only days after a previous threat caused chaos to aviation travel.

According to Proto Thema, in the email the sender writes that he is a friend of the Russian prankster who sent the emails to plant a bomb at the airport and 6 hospitals in Athens.

"If you don't release my friend I will blow up all you Orthodox Christians," he wrote in the email.

It comes after fighter jets escorted a Ryanair flight to safety after the pilot reportedly called in a bomb threat mid-air, last Sunday.

The Boeing 737 was carrying 190 passengers from Katowice, Poland to Athens, Greece when Greek F-16 fighters scrambled to bring the aircraft to safety. The plane was diverted over the sea as a precaution before landing at the airport in Athens at 5.40pm local time, reports say.

The aircraft had been escorted by Hungarian Air Force jets before entering North Macedonian airspace where the Greeks took over, it was reported.

Days after this, specifically on Tuesday, fake bomb threats led to the evacuation of a section of the Athens International Airport and at least five hospitals in Greece.

A specialist explosives unit from the police searched the airport but did not find an explosive device.

Bomb threats were also received via email at five major hospitals in Athens, where a partial evacuation of patients and staff has taken place.

Police units searched the premises at the hospitals of Evangelismos, Tzanio, G. Gennimatas, Pammakaristos, Henry Dunant, and the Children’s Hospital, but found nothing suspicious.

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