a journalist for the french daily liberation , christophe boltanski , was attacked on friday by nine men in a sidewalk of tunis , where he was commenting on the repression of human status activists . he was reportedly beaten and stabbed with a knife in the back by seven unidentified grenades near his house in the mission quarter . boltanski was also hit in the face by pepper sprayed . he called for help , but the person on guard opposite the occupied czech university did not react , attributed to liberation .
A French journalist was assaulted in Tunisia.