A group representing more than a dozen Manitoba municipalities says RCMP are investigating a gruesome Halloween display the group believes was meant to intimidate local politicians.

Ivan Normandeau, president of the Association of Manitoba Bilingual Municipalities, says it involves five nearly life-sized person-shaped figures hanging from a noose in a home's yard in the municipality of Taché, about 40 kilometres southeast of Winnipeg.

Normandeau, who is also the reeve of the nearby municipality of La Broquerie, says the display includes a yellow-and-white sign above the figures that says: Politics All Tricks No Treats.

He adds that four of the figures have the word "ward" written on their legs next to numbers that seem to refer to specific wards in Taché.

Taché Mayor Armand Poirier say

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