After ten days of rioting outside Paris, the hooliganism has spread to other cities. But not Grenoble. Lyon, Lille, Toulouse, Nice, even Cannes and Annecy have had burning cars in their streets. But not Grenoble. "Not yet," Laurianne says. Laurianne works at the art house theater around the corner from my apartment. I sought her ought Sunday night to get her opinion. "Not Grenoble," she said, "not yet."
Douglas and his classmates told me the rumors they heard. "It's an organized national effort" and "there's a puppet master orchestrating everything" they said. "Paris is just the beginning, they haven't started in Grenoble. Not yet."
"When it starts in Grenoble it will be in Mistral," say my students, referring to a housing project near the school. "But don't worry. It hasn't started. Not yet."
During lunch a teacher told me she watched cars burning near her home in Echirolles Sunday night. "We're not panicking though," she said. "Not yet."
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