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Dublin protest urges probe into ‘George Floyd’-style death

By AFP
May 31, 2026
Dublin-based producer and musician Chris Kabs (R) walks with a Congolese flag, down O’Connell Street in central Dublin at the head of a protest to demand justice following the death of Congolese citizen Yves Sakila, after he was violently restrained by shop security guards who suspected him of shoplifting, on May 30, 2026. —AFP
Dublin-based producer and musician Chris Kabs (R) walks with a Congolese flag, down O’Connell Street in central Dublin at the head of a protest to demand justice following the death of Congolese citizen Yves Sakila, after he was violently restrained by shop security guards who suspected him of shoplifting, on May 30, 2026. —AFP

DUBLIN: Protesters in Dublin demanded “justice” Saturday for a Congolese man who died after he was restrained by security guards, in an incident likened to George Floyd’s murder in the United States six years ago.

Around 100 people demonstrated in Ireland’s capital to call for an independent and transparent probe into the death of 35-year-old Yves Sakila earlier this month.

Video footage widely shared on social media showed Sakila being held on the ground for almost five minutes by security workers outside a department store on a busy shopping street in central Dublin on May 15.