Followers of Filipino QAnon influencer Romana Didulo, who claims to be the newly installed Queen of Canada, complied with her request to assemble in Peterborough, Canada, and arrest police officers.
Didulo, who has left over 70,000 followers online, is a leader in Canada’s QAnon movement, a far-right political conspiracy theory.
She formed Canada1st, a nationalist political party, in 2021, promising to end Canadian “slavery” and withdraw the country from international alliances. didulo claimed that Queen Elizabeth II was executed last year and that “white hats and the US military, along with the global allied forces and their governments” helped Didulo become the sovereign of the “Great White North”.
With her growing popularity, she called on her followers to arrest anyone involved in Canada’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout and to make a “citizen arrest” of police officers in Peterborough.
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Frank Curtin, 54, one of the Didulo’s followersled about 30 people to Water Street station on Aug. 13 to arrest Peterborough Police officers.
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“The group stayed outside for several hours. During that time, an incident involving a protester and a counter-protester occurred,” police said said. “Then at about 4 p.m., officers arriving on duty were stopped by protesters who were also trying to gain access to a secure entrance to the police station. The officers tried to take a protester into custody when officers were surrounded. A protester then punched two officers. In total, there were about 30 protesters at the time of the incident.”
At the scene, Curtin was reportedly arrested and charged with mischief and resisting arrest, and a 56-year-old man was arrested and charged on two counts of assaulting police officers.
On August 15, a 31-year-old man was also arrested. He allegedly kicked the door of the station and punched a cop. Two days later, another arrest was made in connection with a counter-protester attack in Confederation Park on August 17. The fifth arrest was made on August 24, when a 57-year-old woman interfered in an arrest and assaulted a police officer.
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The latest arrest was of a 67-year-old woman accused of assaulting a peace officer with a weapon while interfering with the arrest of another protester.
didulo reportedly arrived in Peterborough on the day of the arrest attempts, but she remained near her vehicle.
“She’s pretty calculating, she knows what she can get away with and what she can’t,” said Kurt Phillips of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network. the guard. “She wins anyway. Because if the police don’t do anything, she can claim it’s because they’re following her edicts. When they do something, it feeds the persecution mentality of her followers.”
Peterborough Police are still investigating the events of Didulo’s “civilian arrest” on August 13. They said they will be ready if Didulo’s followers try to arrest cops again.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact Peterborough Police at 705-876-1122 ext. 555 of Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or online at www.stopcrimehere.ca.
Featured image via @CarymaRules (left), @TanyaFusco (Turn right)
