Feb 3, 2017 - Politics & Policy

Prosecutor: Paris attacker is a Egyptian-born UAE resident

Christophe Ena / AP

A French prosecutor has announced that the man who attempted a knife attack on soldiers outside the Louvre today was an Egyptian national living in the UAE who entered France on a tourist visa last week, per the AP.

The obvious issue: Neither Egypt nor the UAE is on Trump's list of seven Muslim-majority countries whose citizens are barred from entering the United States. That prompts the question — does the list expand?

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