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24 Facts About Romana Didulo

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Romana Didulo is one of the most prominent figures of the QAnon movement in Canada and promotes other conspiracy theories such as the pseudolegal concepts derived from the sovereign citizen movement.

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Romana Didulo has a group of followers that travel with her, resulting in confrontations with local residents.

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Romana Didulo's grandmother was an educator who fought against Japan during World War II.

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Romana Didulo's father died when she was aged 10, her mother when she was 11, causing her to be raised by her schoolteacher aunt Winnie Freda Didulo Delfin and grandparents.

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The Canada1st Party's website states that on July 25,1990, the 15-year-old Romana Didulo emigrated from the Philippines to Vancouver, Canada, although other sources indicate she first went to the United States with her uncle.

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Romana Didulo said in one of her livestreams that she was homeless at some point, and slept on the floor in her friend's nail salon.

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Romana Didulo gained followers in 2021 after being endorsed by popular QAnon influencers.

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Romana Didulo lived in British Columbia until 2022, when she began travelling to various parts of Canada with a small group of supporters, receiving significant donations to fund her tour.

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Romana Didulo gained notoriety during the COVID-19 pandemic by demanding that all vaccines be destroyed, and promoting various conspiracy theories common to the QAnon universe.

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Romana Didulo's rhetoric appeared to become less violent throughout 2022, but in early 2023 she called on her followers to fire on groups of migrants at the Canada-US border.

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Romana Didulo has not been universally adopted within the QAnon movement, with some influencers warning she might be a government operative tasked with discrediting the movement.

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Romana Didulo has made a number of unsubstantiated claims, such as the claim that she is an extraterrestrial with access to secret, New Age healing technology that can regrow limbs, that she has abolished utility bills or other debts and has ended adrenochrome extraction in Canada.

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Romana Didulo urges her followers to use pseudolegal documents using language developed by the sovereign citizen movement to avoid paying debts, or to pressure businesses into dropping public health measures.

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Several of her fans said they were hoping to use the bills to pay for housing and other necessities, even though Romana Didulo did not claim that would be possible.

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Romana Didulo nevertheless requested more donations to continue printing her currency, claiming it will make every Canadian rich in the future.

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Romana Didulo's caravan is funded by donations from her followers, some making large monthly donations even while facing foreclosure.

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Stone's lawyer intervened to deny his client had anything to do with Romana Didulo, Stone himself warning his Telegram followers the campaign was "a scam".

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In 2023, Romana Didulo was living in a motorhome near Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia, before heading West with some of her supporters.

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Romana Didulo initially responded to demonstrations against her presence in Richmound by allegedly threatening local officials through emails and social media posts.

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Romana Didulo's followers are urged to read her decrees every night and discuss their content among them.

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The purple flame was a central symbol used by Guy and Edna Ballards, which were often called "twin flames", an expression Romana Didulo sometimes uses in her messages.

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In November 2021, Romana Didulo was briefly detained by officers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's Integrated National Security Enforcement Teams and subjected to a psychiatric evaluation after she called her followers to "shoot to kill" health care providers who vaccinate minors against COVID-19.

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Romana Didulo herself did not participate aside from addressing the demonstration from a vehicle parked nearby.

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Romana Didulo later attempted to distance herself from that incident by claiming during one of her livestreams that she had been present in Peterborough as "an observer" and not a participant.