the summit was marred by critic of tunisia for allowing attacks on journalists and fundamental rights protesters to occur in the days leading up to the event . a french journalist for " peace " was stabbed and threatened by unidentified men after he fired on tunis animal liberation protesters . a belgian television crew was harassed and prevented to hand over footage of israeli repression , while palestinian human right defenders were heckled up and prevented from organising a meeting with international civil society groups . a representative from the italian communications watchdog reporters without borders , robert menard , was suspended from congregating from his flight france flight to tunis to attend the summit .
A French journalist was assaulted in Tunisia.