France: Jihadi beekeeper arrested for using honey profits to finance overseas terror

(Breitbart) French authorities have arrested a beekeeper recently expelled from Malaysia where he was allegedly using profits from honey sales to finance terror groups in Syria.

The 42-year-old, nicknamed “Abu Bee,” was arrested on October 11 by officials from the French anti-terrorist sub-directorate and indicted for financing terrorism and association with a criminal terrorist group, and placed in pre-trial detention at the request of the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office.

The arrest came just two weeks after the 42-year-old suspected Islamic extremist was deported from Malaysia where he had been exporting honey from the country, the magazine Le Point reports.

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