Bernie Ecclestone, the 95-year-old former Formula 1 chief, flew in from Switzerland with a shotgun and touched down at Cascais, the airfield just west of Lisbon, expecting a sporting event rather than the police reception that met him, and local officers and customs officials went on to question him for more than an hour. Reports of an arrest he rejected outright, confirming that he had cooperated with the authorities while ruling out any suggestion that he had been handcuffed. "I went to see the police and said, 'What can I do for you?' And they said, 'We would like some information on this gun you brought in'," he explained. Lacking the necessary import paperwork, he was relieved of the weapon on the spot. Firearms trouble is familiar territory for him: in 2022 he was detained in Brazil over an illegal gun found on board a private jet and fined 6,000 Brazilian reais.