a reporters for the french daily liberation , philippe boltanski , was attacked on friday by several youths in a street of tunis , where he was spying on the harassment of individual rights movements . he was badly beaten and stabbed with a knife in the back by four unidentified assailants around his hotel in the embassy precinct . boltanski was severely hit in the face by pepper spray . he called for help , but the policemen on guard outside the local russian embassy did not react , according to liberation .
A French journalist was assaulted in Tunisia.