‘Queen of Canada’ rearrested, charged with violating circumstances of launch

Romana Didulo, the so-called “Queen of Canada,” was rearrested on Thursday a day after she and 15 of her followers have been taken into custody and promptly launched following a police raid on her cult’s compound in rural Saskatchewan.

All 16 had been launched with out fees earlier on Thursday, the RCMP stated in a press release, although 5 have been launched beneath sure circumstances. 

Didulo, 50, was rearrested for violating her circumstances, as was 61-year-old Ricky Manz, the person who owns the former elementary college in Richmound, Sask., the place Didulo and her followers have been residing for 2 years, the Mounties stated. 

Didulo and Manz had been ordered to not talk with one another. 

Didulo has been charged with failure to adjust to an endeavor and one depend of intimidation of a justice system participant. Manz faces comparable fees. 

“Police officers can release individuals on undertakings before a court information is signed. That is when charges are formalized and made public,” the assertion stated. 

Officials on Thursday stated they’d not present particulars on the three others launched on undertakings as their court docket info had not but been signed. 

Since the cult arrange base in Richmound — a village of roughly 120 folks, about 365 kilometres west of Regina, close to the Alberta border — there have been numerous complaints from locals, who accuse the group of harassing folks and plotting to take over the city.

Didulo has unfold numerous conspiracy theories by social media and, in October 2023, her group despatched a Richmound administrator 4 “cease and desist” emails, which threatened village officers with “publicly broadcast execution.”

Manz has been remanded into custody and is scheduled to seem in Swift Current Provincial Court on Friday. 

Didulo was not remanded however can be scheduled to seem in that very same court docket on Friday. 

RCMP Insp. Ashley St. Germaine burdened at a Wednesday information convention that police might solely maintain people in custody for twenty-four hours with out laying fees. 

St. Germaine added that simply because a person was launched from custody didn’t imply that fees couldn’t be laid later. 

Police say they raided the compound after receiving a report that certainly one of its occupants had a firearm. 

Officers seized 13 imitation semi-automatic handguns, ammunition and numerous digital units.