Protesters gather outside Ireland's parliament over Yves Sakila's 'disturbing' death

Protesters person gathered astatine the gates of the Irish Parliament to explicit "anger" and "grief" astatine the decease of a antheral successful Dublin metropolis centre.

Yves Sakila died past Friday aft an incidental connected Dublin's Henry Street.

The 35-year-old had been detained by a fig of information guards implicit an alleged shoplifting incident. The Congolese antheral died not agelong afterwards successful hospital.

Footage of the incident, circulating connected societal media, has been described by the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR) arsenic "very disturbing" and Irish constabulary are investigating what happened.

Several 100 radical gathered astatine Thursday's protestation and posters speechmaking "Justice for Yves" were held up successful the crowd.

Protesters urged a thorough probe into Sakila's decease and asked for his sanction to not beryllium forgotten.

"We are not present to inquire galore questions," said Dr Salome Mbugua, who spoke from the podium during the protest.

"We are present to inquire wherefore was this young beingness taken away? How was it taken away? Have we mislaid it arsenic quality beings that we bash not person consciousness of protecting 1 another?"

What happened to Yves Sakila?

Gardaí (Irish police) accidental they were alerted to an incidental aft information unit detained Sakila connected Henry Street successful transportation with an alleged shoplifting incidental astatine astir 17:00 section clip connected Friday.

They said a antheral successful his 80s was earnestly injured arsenic the fishy attempted the fly the scene. He was taken to infirmary with non-life-threatening injuries.

Sakila became unresponsive astatine the country and was transported by ambulance to the Mater Hospital, wherever helium was aboriginal pronounced dead.

He was calved successful the Democratic Republic of Congo but grew up successful Galway and Dublin.

A video of the incidental has been circulating online successful which it appears a fig of information guards restrained the antheral look down connected the ground.

Gardaí told BBC News NI that investigations into "all circumstances" are continuing and determination are "no important updates".

The incidental has besides been referred to Fiosrú, Ireland's constabulary ombudsman, for investigation.

INAR said the lawsuit "appears" to person "hallmarks of a lawsuit of excessive usage of force".

"The decease of a achromatic antheral successful specified circumstances is highly worrying, and we impulse the authorities to thoroughly analyse each of the circumstances starring to this man's death, successful bid to guarantee number taste assemblage assurance successful the transgression justness system."

The Special Rapporteur, Dr Ebun Joseph, said the societal media footage circulating is causing "significant distress, fear, and outrage crossed galore communities, peculiarly among Black and number taste communities".

In a missive to An Garda Siochana, the Irish justness curate and Fiosrú - which has been seen by BBC News NI - Joseph said: "The scenes depicted, including the disproportionate and unnecessary level of unit utilized during Mr Sakila's restraint, are profoundly disturbing and rise urgent and superior questions which necessitate broad examination."

The incidental happened extracurricular Arnotts, 1 of Dublin's best-known section stores.

A spokesperson for the retailer said "everyone" astatine the retailer "is profoundly saddened" by his decease and extended "heartfelt sympathies" to his family, his friends, and the wider Congolese assemblage successful Ireland.

"No nonaccomplishment of beingness should ever beryllium the result of a retail information incident," they said, adding it recognises the "deep wounded and interest this calamity has caused".

The spokesperson said Arnotts is cooperating with constabulary and conducting a "full review" with the information steadfast that provides information successful store.

They added that they cannot marque immoderate further nationalist remark portion the garda investigations remains progressive and are "committed" to ensuring that the facts are established.

What happened astatine the protest?

Honore Kamegni , a Green Party Councillor from Cork, told the protestation astir coming to Ireland successful 2002 from Cameroon seeking safety.

"I recovered a harmless onshore for myself and my family," helium said.

"I recovered Ireland harmless and welcoming.

"We are present this greeting to guarantee what happened to Yves Sakila should not hap again successful this country."

Fine Gael Councillor Yemi Adenuga urged the assemblage to intervene successful situations and "speak" to forestall danger, if it is harmless to bash so.

"Today we're not asking, we're demanding.

"Our lives substance and it would beryllium bittersweet to spot this hap again connected the streets of Dublin".

Walter Kabangu, who is erstwhile vice-president of the Congolese Community successful Ireland, and went to the aforesaid schoolhouse arsenic Yves Sakila, was among those who attended an earlier vigil connected Tuesday.

He told BBC Radio Foyle's North West Today programme that it was incredibly hard to ticker the societal media footage involving his schoolhouse friend.

"Mostly shocking, conscionable seeing the images and seeing idiosyncratic you utilized to spot backmost successful schoolhouse successful your younger days and past seeing them person specified a demise.

"It's conscionable a precise bittersweet concern that has taken spot and thing that I find rather regrettable and thing that shouldn't person taken place.

"It's specified a calamity that has impacted our assemblage and is thing that has been a daze and specified a precise saddening infinitesimal for the Congolese community."

What's the governmental absorption been?

Taoiseach (Irish PM) Micheál Martin, and different governmental leaders, person called for a afloat investigation.

"My deepest sympathies spell retired to his family, and to the wider Congolese community," Martin said.

"The concern volition person to beryllium thoroughly investigated, and needs to beryllium thoroughly investigated.

"I don't privation to prejudice the result of that probe but I deliberation a batch of radical are intelligibly precise acrophobic astir what has transpired here."

Irish justness curate Jim O'Callaghan said determination indispensable beryllium a "thorough garda investigation".

Social Democrats person Holly Cairns called the societal media video "deeply concerning" and said determination indispensable beryllium a "full and broad probe into what happened".