It started with an empty classroom. A teacher who never showed up. In mid-September, pupils at Lycée Saint-Exupéry in Créteil, just outside Paris, got tired of waiting. So they dragged trash bins to the front gate and shut the school down. Two weeks later, France’s Interior Minister was counting arrests by the hundreds. Principals were bleeding. Teenagers had set a fire truck on fire in Marseille. And the politicians were doing what politicians do best: blaming each other on camera…
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