Swiss police confirmed Thursday that they'd received calls from Michael Schumacher's home and had to "intervene once or twice" as media headed there following the seven-time Formula One champion's release from the nearby CHUV hospital in Lausanne.

The 45-year-old German legend was back home on Tuesday, more than eight months under treatment in French and Swiss hospitals since he suffered a severe traumatic brain injury in a skiing accident on Dec. 29, 2013 in Meribel French.

His private villa, located on the shore of Lake Geneva at Gland in Swiss canton of Vaud, was flocked by dozens of journalists, photographers and television crews following the development, despite the statement by Schumacher's agent Sabine Kehm urged "the privacy of Michael's family continue to be respected". [ "Police simply had to intervene once or twice, just to make people take notice of traffic problems, because there were journalists who were badly parked, people who were being perhaps a bit too insistent at the gates, but nothing in particular and everything in a very civil way," a police spokesman for the Vaud canton told The Local, an English news network of Europe, on Thursday.

Schumacher's home, where he lives with his wife and two children, is being guarded by a private security firm.

"For the moment being, yes (we plan to leave things in the hands of the private security firm). Of course, the estate, the home of Mr Schumacher is managed by private security," the spokesman added.

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