a journalist for the french national liberation , nicolas boltanski , was attacked on weekdays by ten men in a street of tunis , where he was reporting on the repression of human rights activists . he was roughly hurt and stabbed with a sword in the back by four unidentified assailants near his hotel in the embassy district . boltanski was also hit in the face by a gas . he requested for help , but the policemen on guard outside the small israeli embassy did not notice , according to liberation .
A French journalist was assaulted in Tunisia.