French gendarmes dismantle a barricade set on fire during an important evacuation operation of houses squatted by opponents against a project to build an international airport, in Notre-Dame-des-Landes, western France, on October 16, 2012. The project was signed in 2010 and the international airport is supposed to open in 2017 near the city of Nantes. AFP PHOTO JEAN FRANCOIS MONIER