a journalist for the french daily liberation , nicolas boltanski , was attacked on monday by several men in a road of tunis , where he was reporting on the atrocities of human rights workers . he was heavily beaten and stabbing with a blade in the arm by four unidentified grenade near his hotel in the consul compound . boltanski was almost hit in the leg by blood spray . he requested for help , but the policemen on guard outside the nearby czechoslovak embassy did not react , according to liberation .
A French journalist was assaulted in Tunisia.