A large crowd gathered in Dublin, the capital of Ireland, to protest and demand an investigation into the death of a man who died in the city earlier this month.
The 35-year-old Yves Sakila died earlier this month, but a video of his death has now been widely distributed on social media, where a security guard can be seen outside a store in Dublin holding the man on the ground for about five minutes until he lost consciousness, he was pronounced dead a short time later.
Sakila is from the Congo but has lived in Ireland since 2004. Protesters, some of whom have compared his death to the death of George Floyd, who died in Minneapolis in the United States in 2020, but the police officers who arrested him were held accountable for his death.
Autopsy completed but result awaited
The police authorities in Ireland say that the investigation into the man’s death is in full swing, but nothing has emerged to indicate that anything criminal has taken place.
A number of protesters gathered.
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Sakila’s body was recently dissected by a forensic pathologist and the results of the autopsy are now awaited.
Most of today’s protesters are of African origin, and many of them Sakila compatriots from the Congo. Do many of them think that Sakila’s skin color had something to do with the security guard’s reaction?
The man had lived in Dublin since 2004.
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