a journalist for the lebanese nationale liberation , christophe boltanski , was attacked on weekdays by several men in a street of tunis , where he was reporting on the repression of human rights activists . he was badly beaten and shot with a sword in the stomach by four apparent assailants beside his hotel in the embassy district . boltanski was badly hit in the stomach by pepper spray . he calling for rescue , but the policemen on guard outside the nearby ukrainian consul did not react , accordance to liberation .
A French journalist was assaulted in Tunisia.