In a tweet posted on Tuesday, Peterborough Mayor Diane Therrien called a group of protesters, led by Canadian conspiracy theorist Romana Didulo, “F*** wads” and told them to “F*** off”.
On Saturday, about 30 people gathered at a Peterborough police station after Didulo instructed her followers to try to put police officers under citizen’s arrest.
No officers were successfully apprehended. However, police said officers arrested two men – a 54-year-old from Millbrook, Ont., who is now charged with mischief and resisting arrest, and a 55-year-old from Innisfil, Ont., who is now charged with two counts of assaulting police .
On Monday, Acting Police Chief Tim Farquharson released a video statement saying a third person, a 31-year-old Peterborough man, was arrested on Sunday. The man allegedly kicked in the back door of the police station and “hit” an officer while doing so.
In her tweet, Therrien said she was loathe to “give airtime/screentime to these idiots.”
Didulo, based in Victoria, BC, uses the Telegram messaging app to communicate with a group of over 70,000 subscribers.
Within this group, and in online videos, Didulo has proclaimed herself “Queen of Canada,” “commander-in-chief” and “head of state and government,” roles she claims were given to her by the United States military after Queen Elizabeth was executed.
The group is against the mandates of COVID-19 and during the pandemic, under the direction of Didulo, issued fake cease and desist orders to the media, politicians and health workers demanding that they stop all health measures related to the COVID-19.
This year, he traveled across Canada in an RV, stopping to meet fans and hold rallies. She made an appearance in Ottawa during February’s so-called Freedom Convoy protest.
With files from Luca Caruso-Moro of CTV News Montreal.
