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Ecclestone plays down ‘gun on plane' arrest
May 28 Bernie Ecclestone has played down widespread reports that he was arrested in Brazil after trying to smuggle a gun onto a plane. 'I wasn't arrested, I was questioned,' the former F1 supremo, who is now 91, told Bild newspaper. Ecclestone actually lives in Brazil with his wife and their two-year-old son, and he was boarding his own plane for a trip to Switzerland. 'I had a small, tiny handgun, like the kind a woman carries in her purse in case someone jumps on her,' the diminutive Briton explained. He also claims the gun was only 'accidentally' in his suitcase, after he 'waved it around a little at home and then put it on a t-shirt which was then packed with the gun'. The gun itself...
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