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She claims to be Queen of Canada and is now holding her in a deserted school.
Romana Didulo, a QAnon-inspired conspiracy theorist, leads an organization of supporters who have spent the past few years traveling across Canada in motorhomes and vehicles.
Recently, the organization moved to Richmound, a village of about 150 more people in southwestern Saskatchewan, and moved to a former school.
Didulo and 15 to 25 of his subscribers have been on the show for about a week, says Thomas Fougere of Community TV, an independent local news outlet founded near Medicine Hat.
Soon after their arrival, neighbors began pressuring them to leave.
On Sunday, according to M. Fern, about a hundred citizens circulated around the school in tractors, semi-trailers and other vehicles to scare away those who arrived.
“This is the only place in the village where there is a playground and where young people can ride bikes safely, away from the highway,” he said. “The situation is very tense. The city doesn’t need it. “
Ms. Didulo, 48, immigrated to Canada from the Philippines as a teenager. He led several corporations before forming a fringe political party in 2020.
Following QAnon leaders, he formed an organization of ers, declared that he had overthrown Canada’s existing government, and claims that his claim to the name “Queen of Canada” is based on secretive and hardcore interests of the U. S. military.
In its maximum Telegram channel, it issued “decrees” to absolve its more than 36,000 subscribers of expenses and debts.
This has resulted in the loss of their homes, cars and belongings, says Christine Sarteschi, a professor at Chatham University in Pittsburgh and an expert on extremism and the sovereign citizen movement — a wide variety of anti-government groups evading taxes and disguising their rights. own interests. own false legal systems.
Didulo and his supporters propagate other beliefs, such as the sovereign citizen, anti-vaccine conspiracies and QAnon-like concepts: a broad and totally unfounded theory that former US President Donald Trump is waging a covert war against Satan. They adore pedophiles in government, business and the media.
Although QAnon narratives revolve around American personalities, the theory has taken hold in parts of Canada and around the world.
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Didolo’s organization participated in the Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa in 2022 and last year attempted to arrest police officers in Peterborough, Ontario, accusing them of “crimes against humanity. “
Six of Ms. Didolo’s supporters arrested.
Didulo also calls for violence against those who administer Covid vaccines to children, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
“This is the supreme anti-government,” Sarteschi said, noting that Didulo threatened to execute his opponents.
“This is an innocent sect. “
Journalist Fougère says he has received threats since he was part of the group.
Messages to Didulo and his followers went unanswered Tuesday.
The organization has been in Saskatchewan for at least several weeks. Earlier this month, a slew of local agents kicked them out of Kamsack, a small town on the other side of the province.
Now it looks like the organization is staying in Richmound.
He is willing for plumbers and craftsmen to volunteer for structural projects. Subscribers who are not in school lately post on Telegram their plans to scale in the domain in mid-October.
“In recent years, they have simply traveled around Canada and stopped at campsites,” the journalist explained. “It’s the first time they’ve been given access to a construction like this. “
Richmound may not officially do much about it.
The land and surroundings were sold through the government and are now in personal hands, complicating efforts to relocate the group.
Brad Miller, mayor of Richmound, told local media that citizens were following the scene and gave the impression that the organization had done nothing illegal in the town.
Richmound officials responded to BBC News interview requests.
In a statement, Saskatchewan police said an investigation was underway into a reported attack at Sunday’s protest, but no injuries or arrests had been reported.
Sarteschi, the extremism expert, said the organization is more serious than its far-fetched ideals suggest.
“Very often, that kind of thing is ignored until something bad happens,” he said. “I don’t know how it will end. . . I don’t know if something terrible is going to happen, but I pray it doesn’t happen. “”.
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