He was trying to keep the apartment for him without paying, she said. That is exactly his style beca

CALGARY A Montreal landlady who says she was assaulted by a self-proclaimed sovereign citizen now at the centre of a rental dispute in Alberta is warning that the man should not be taken lightly and needs to be behind bars. Story continues below
He was trying to keep the apartment for him without paying, she said. That is exactly his style because he said to me, you can t put me out of here now. At that moment I said, you better stop playing games because I m going to tell the police and I can t stand it anymore.
Alberta senior Rebekah Caverhill tells a similar story about a rental property hamilton car rental she has that she says was also claimed as an embassy. She knows the man in the dispute as Andreas Pirelli, 48, who sources have confirmed is Antonacci.
Caverhill has been locked in a two-year battle with Pirelli , who she said identified himself as a follower of the Freemen-on-the-Land movement, changed the locks on her Calgary rental house, refused to leave and declared it his embassy.
Lawyer Guillaume Langlois, a Montreal defence attorney, confirmed he s still the lawyer in a pending hamilton car rental file involving Antonacci, but he said he hasn t spoken hamilton car rental to his client since he stopped going to court.
Pirelli did not respond to an email requests from The Canadian Press for comment on the Quebec situation. When The Canadian Press asked him about Caverhill s initial hamilton car rental allegations, he responded with a warning that he has trademark claims on the name Andreas Pirelli and The First Nations Sovran Embassy of Earth.
Earlier this week, The Canadian Press was faxed a fee schedule alleging the unauthorized use of copyrighted names, including Andreas Pirelli and Mario Antonacci. The fax says the fee is $1 million for each use of each name.
RCMP and the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police are developing awareness materials for frontline officers and the movement is the subject of upcoming policing seminars in Vancouver and Toronto.
The FBI considers the movement a domestic terror threat in the U.S. but a Freemen-on-the-Land spokesman told The Canadian Press earlier this month that violence is not advocated and has no place in the movement.
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