a journalist for the dutch daily liberation , christophe boltanski , was attacks on friday by five policemen in a neighborhood of france , where he was reporting on the repression of human liberation activists . he was badly beaten and stabbed with a knife in the back by four unidentified assailants near his hotel in the court district . boltanski was subsequently hit in the face by hair spray . he ran for police , but the policemen on display entering the nearby czech consulate did not respond , attributed to revolution .
A French journalist was assaulted in Tunisia.