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TOPSHOT - A protester uses a tennis racquet to defend himself from teargas canisters released by riot forces as clashes erupt during a police operation to raze the decade-old camp known as ZAD (Zone a Defendre - Zone to defend) at Notre-Dame-des-Landes, near the western city of Nantes on April 10, 2018, and evict the last of the protesters who had refused to leave despite the government agreeing to ditch a proposed airport. - French police battled to evict anti-airport protesters and the creators of an alternative anti-capitalist settlement in western France during a second day of clashes. Some 2,500 officers raided the decade-old camp at Notre-Dame-des-Landes on April 9, destroying makeshift buildings topped with corrugated iron, a giant tent, a watchtower, and a sheep shed and cheese-making area. (Photo by LOIC VENANCE / AFP) (Photo by LOIC VENANCE/AFP via Getty Images)