The cultural curse of QAnon may have largely dissipated in the U.S., but an alleged offshoot of the cult has been festering in a remote region of Canada. This week, police say they busted the group in a raid on a compound in a small village in southwest Saskatchewan.
Authorities in Canada say they arrested 17 people in the village of Richmound on Wednesday. The arrests took place at a building where the group—which calls itself “The Kingdom of Canada”—had been living for approximately two years, CBC reports. The raid was spurred by a report received by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police of a person at the address possessing a firearm, authorities told the press.
The arrest appeared to go smoothly based on a video posted to a Telegram channel that, according to the BBC, belongs to Didulo. The group’s leader, Romana Didulo, was calm as she explained that the police were executing a warrant. “Leave the phone down,” officers ordered when they entered the room. “You’re under arrest.”
Four replica handguns were seized, and seventeen people were reportedly in custody as of Wednesday afternoon.
Q-Anon Cult leader “Queen of Canada” Romana Didulo live streaming her arrest as an RCMP tactical team raids her compound pic.twitter.com/n677ecmSGy
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Didulo calls herself the “Queen of Canada,” and rails against covid vaccinations, the “Deep State,” and other familiar tropes of the politically unwell. While her beliefs have included mundane proclamations like her followers no longer have to pay any of their outstanding debts, she eventually started making claims that she’s an “extraterrestrial spiritual leader with access to secret, New Age healing technology,” according to Vice.
The group appears to have a YouTube channel, dubbed The Official Kingdom of Canada Channel, where there are dozens of videos of Didulo speaking or meeting with her followers. The latest video posted to the page is from three years ago. The page also links to a website associated with the group that includes Didulo’s official “decrees” and other nonsense.
Didulo and her group have been accused of saying some pretty spooky stuff, including, reportedly, threatening to publicly execute government officials and “broadcast” their deaths. In addition to referring to herself as the “Queen of Canada,” she has referred to herself as the “Commander in Chief,” “Head of Government,” and “President” of Canada.
Anyway, given all that, I guess it isn’t too surprising that Didulo and her clan have now been arrested. On Wednesday, Inspector Ashley St. Germaine, senior investigator with Saskatchewan RCMP’s Major Crimes Branch, held a press conference where she gave details on the recent arrests.
“After receiving this report, Saskatchewan RCMP began an extensive investigation. This included careful monitoring of any risk to public safety and to the community of Richmound,” Germaine told reporters on Wednesday afternoon. “A team of skilled and experienced senior officers was established to oversee this large and complex operation,” she added.
It wasn’t immediately clear how to contact the group, as its website does not appear to have a contact portal.
Christine Sarteschi, a professor at Chatham University who specializes in cults, told CBC that the group had begun as “part of the larger Q-Anon movement” but eventually evolved to espouse the ideals of the sovereign citizen movement.
“[Didulo] tells them that she is the ultimate authority, that she is the ruler under natural law. She is effectively the supreme ruler of all the land. She tells them they don’t have to pay taxes,” Sarteschi revealed. “It’s anything Romana says, and the followers truly believe what she says.”
Arguably, QAnon and the sovereign citizens have always had a bit of a crossover. The types of people in the U.S. who sympathized with the cult’s narrative—i.e., that the government is led by Satan-worshipping pedophiles—obviously weren’t super fond of government, and many of them seemed to trend towards the libertarian variety.
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