Explosives in Brussels ex-Russian soldier’s

Home-made explosives found on the day the Tour de France was launched in Brussels belonged to an “unstable” former Russian soldier who died in 2011, prosecutors said on Thursday. A worker found a stash of weapons on Saturday in the step of a stairway of a building near where cyclists raced. “The bag containing explosives, knives and brass knuckles belonged to a man, GA, a former Russian soldier who was born in 1965 and died in 2011,” the Brussels prosecutor’s office said.