a journalist for the french daily liberation , christophe boltanski , was attacked on friday by several men in a street of tunis , where he was writing on the persecution of civil rights advocates . he was violently beaten and punched with a weapon in the back by five unidentified robbers nearest his hotel in the embassy quarter . boltanski was also hit in the face by pepper spray . he called for help , but the policemen on guards around the local israeli embassy did not react , attributed to independence .
A French journalist was assaulted in Tunisia.