Richmound mayor describes aftermath of cult raid
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Sewage water continues to seep into a large puddle near the entrance of a purple-coloured school-turned-compound that housed members of a cult in the southwest Saskatchewan village of Richmound for the last two years.
Although the “Kingdom of Canada” cult was driven out earlier this month after a police raid, the village’s Mayor Brad Miller says the sewage water — overflow from the toilets and sinks inside the building — remains.
“If there’s wind, people probably 500 feet away can smell it,” says Miller, 64, in an interview.
“If you get it on your hands or whatever, you can smell it for hours. It stinks like you wouldn’t believe.”
And Miller thinks daily about how to keep them out if the Kingdom of Canada returns.
“I’m fed up. My family’s fed up. If you came out to the southwest, people are just fed up. It’s enough. It’s scary.
“When has a cult ever turned good?”
The sewage began pooling outside the building after the village cut the compound’s water and sewage system last year as a last resort to drive out the cult members.
The owner of the school, Ricky Manz, was not paying his water and utility bills, Miller says. Cult members then began dumping water overflowing from its toilet and sinks around the building.
But it wasn’t the sewage water that forced RCMP to raid the compound on Sept. 5. Mounties say they obtained a search warrant to enter the property on the belief someone inside had a firearm.
Mounties seized 13 imitation semi-automatic handguns along with ammunition and electronic devices in the raid. Manz, and Romana Didulo, the head of the Kingdom of Canada, and others were arrested.
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