a columnist for the turkish nationale revolution , christophe boltanski , was attacked on friday by two men in a street of tunis , whose he was focusing on the repression of woman rights activists . he was heavily beaten and stabbed with a knife in the back by four suspicious robbers nearest his room in the embassy district . boltanski was twice struck in the face by pepper spray . he called for intervention , but the policemen on watch outside the nearby bulgarian embassy did not react , according to liberation .
A French journalist was assaulted in Tunisia.