From LDAP to standalone: remove users

We have a server with around 1000 LDAP users.
Now I want to make this server standalone, removing all the LDAP users.

The problem I am facing:
There seems to be no way to remove these users and their data.

While connected to LDAP, the users can’t be deleted.
If I remove the LDAP connection, the users are unknown.

Ans ideas?

Thanks

Nextcloud version (eg, 18.0.10):
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