Residents of a small village in southwestern Saskatchewan took to their vans on Sunday to protest their city’s latest resident — a girl who claims to have authorized standing as ‘queen’ of Canada.
Romana Didulo, the chief of a fringe conspiracy group who was compelled out of Kamsack, Sask. on Sept. 13, has been camped out on a resident’s property within the village of Richmound since final week — on the group’s shuttered faculty.
The U.S.-based Anti-Defamaton League describes Didulo as a “Canadian QAnon determine” who has known as for “violent motion” towards those that assist administer COVID-19 vaccines to youngsters.
When Didulo arrived in Kamsack, about 200 people from the city and close by First Nations confronted the group and escorted them out of city.
Now, safe on personal property in Richmound, some residents concern it may not be really easy to push her and her followers out.
The shuttered faculty the place Romana Didulo has arrange camp in Richmound, Sask. (Courtesy: Involved residents of Richmound)
“Clearly the remainder of the city doesn’t need her right here,” stated one resident who requested to stay nameless.
She stated about fifty residents staged a protest on Sunday, driving round Didulo’s compound and blaring their horns.
“I’ve reached out to our MLAs, the provincial authorities, the federal authorities … I’ve hit roadblock after roadblock after roadblock,” she stated.
“We have been simply informed they must do one thing unlawful earlier than anybody can do something.”
An officer understanding of the Chief RCMP detachment informed CTV Information final week that police are conscious Didulo is within the space and are monitoring the state of affairs.
The Mountie stated Didulo’s group has not damaged any legal guidelines.
The resident who spoke to CTV Information stated she was shocked to examine Didulo’s violent rhetoric, and the actions of her followers.
At a protest in Peterborough final yr, two males have been charged after Didulo directed her followers to position law enforcement officials underneath citizen’s arrest.
“It’s extraordinarily, extraordinarily alarming,” she stated.
“I’m not essentially terrified of … those which can be within the constructing. I’m terrified of what she’s placing out to her followers and the followers that doubtlessly might come right here and do one thing.”
Richmound, Sask. is positioned north of Maple Creek close to the Alberta border – about 445 kilometres west of Regina.
-With recordsdata from Wayne Mantyka, Drew Postey and Abby O’Brien.
