a correspondent for the french daily liberation , christophe boltanski , was attacked on monday by eight individuals in a street of tunis , where he was report on the harassment of humanitarian freedom activists . he was badly beat and murdered with a dagger in the back by four unidentified assailants inside his hotel in the mission precinct . boltanski was allegedly slapped in the face by pepper spray . he calling for mercy , but the policemen on guard outside the nearby belgian embassy did not react , according to liberation .
A French journalist was assaulted in Tunisia.