After the risky protest action by Greenpeace before the first European Championship game of the German national soccer team, both men injured in the process have now been released from the hospital.

The Munich police headquarters announced on Friday.

A 38-year-old man from Pforzheim in Baden-Württemberg made an emergency landing on the square of the Munich Arena shortly before the game between Germany and France (0: 1) kicked off on Tuesday evening.

Two 36 and 42 year old men were injured in the head during the approach.

The police also confirmed that there had been a reference to the action from the environmental organization - but only after the pilot had already been approaching for landing.

A Greenpeace spokesman said the day after the protest that police officers inside and outside the stadium had been notified.

A Munich police spokesman had initially not confirmed this and said that his authority had no information about it.

"As it has now been possible to understand based on reports from the emergency services on June 15, 2021, a reference to the action was issued by a person almost at the same time as the actual event," said the police report on Friday.

"Even before this information could be transmitted by radio, the pilot landed in the football stadium."

Not only the injured men, but also the pilot himself were very lucky. "If the police had come to the conclusion that it was a terrorist attack, he would have had to pay for it with his life," Bavaria's Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU) said on Wednesday. "The snipers deployed had him already in their sights."