French Reporter Assaulted in Cairo's Tahrir Square
The France 24 correspondent was mobbed after finishing a live news report
FRANCE 24 journalist Sonia Dridi filed a police complaint with Egyptian police on Saturday, a day after she was assaulted while reporting on a protest in the capital Cairo's Tahrir Square.
Dridi had just finished giving a live news report at around 10:30pm on Friday for FRANCE 24's French language television when a crowd of men teemed around her, shoving and grabbing at her body.
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Man, this is a tough one... on the one hand, I hate to see anyone get attacke3d when they don't deserve it, but... on the other hand, she IS French.