[2] As Israeli wrestler Gad Tsobari reached the bottom of the stairs, he pushed a hooded militant aside and made a dash towards the entrance to the underground car park.
While Tsobari made his escape, wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg tackled Safady, landing a powerful punch on his jaw, fracturing it and knocking out several of his teeth.
After their release by the German government on 29 October 1972, seven and a half weeks after they were captured, Safady, along with Jamal and Adnan Al-Gashey were flown to Tripoli, where they gave a press conference to the world's media.
However, in his book Striking Back: The 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and Israel's Deadly Response, author Aaron J. Klein claims that during a conversation with Tawfik Tirawi in Ramallah in 2005, he was told that Safady was "alive as you are".
"[7] Klein also claims that members of the intelligence community speculated that Safady could have been killed by Lebanese Christian Phalangists as a 'gesture' to the Israeli Mossad.