Jordi Cuixart
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Jordi Cuixart i Navarro 22 April 1975 Santa Perpètua de Mogoda, Spain |
| Occupation | Businessperson |
| Known for | President of the Òmnium Cultural |
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Jordi Cuixart i Navarro (Santa Perpètua de Mogoda, Spain, 1975) is the president of Òmnium Cultural, an independent organisation founded in 1961 with around 70,000 members and 40 local branches. Òmnium's main aims are to promote the Catalan culture and language, education and social cohesion. Òmnium also supports the Catalans' right to decide their political future.
Cuixart's mother was from Murcia and his father from Badalona. He is a member of different social organisations, such as Can Capablanca, a pro independence social centre in Sabadell and the cooperative financial institution Coop 57. He was an objector to Spanish military service.
Cuixart is the President of Aranow, a company that exports packaging machinery. He is co-founder and chairman of FemCAT, a private foundation of Catalan businesspeople.
On 16 October 2017, Jordi Cuixart and Jordi Sànchez and were preventively jailed after the state attorney's accusation of sedition, a felony regulated by the article 544 and subsequents of the Spanish Criminal Code. This sedition was allegedly committed when they organised massive protests on 20-21 September 2017 aimed at hindering the Spanish Civil Guard police raids to dismantle the framework of the 1 October illegal referendum on Catalan independence. They were accused of leading the protest of tens of thousands of people that surrounded the Catalan economy department heeding a call made by Òmnium Cultural and ANC, during which the demonstrations smashed up three vehicles of the Civil Guard, impeded the official business of a magistrate and impeded her from exiting the building during 18 hours, and several agents were cornered throughout the night inside the building, as demonstrators shouted "You won't get out!". The investigating judge stated that the leaders did not call for "peaceful demonstration but to the protection of Catalan officials through 'massive citizens' mobilisations" and that Sànchez, on top of a vehicle, encouraged the demonstrators with expressions such as "no one goes home, it will be a long and intense night". Footage from that night spread by a Twitter user showed Cuixart and Sànchez at 11pm trying to call off the protests, contradicting the part where the judicial order imprisoning them says that "they did not use at any time the control they had over the people to call off the demonstration they had summoned".
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