a man for the french paper l , christophe boltanski , was attack on friday by seven men in a strip of cairo , where he was briefing on the killing of human rights activists . he was violently beaten and stabbed with a knife in the thigh by four unidentified masked near his lodging in the embassy district . boltanski was also hit in the nose by pepper sprayed . he called for help , but the policemen on guard entering the occupied czech border did not react , according to liberation .
A French journalist was assaulted in Tunisia.