Catalan President Quim Torra has been banned from public office. Let's run through some of his greatest hits. (1) Openly defying electoral law. (2) Saying Catalan nationalists should start a small civil war. (3) Public homages to murderous Catalan fascists from the 1930s. 1/3

(4) Saying the Catalan nation is like a sugarcube and immigrants are like a glass of milk. (5) Saying it is "unnatural" to speak Spanish in Barcelona. (6) Comparing Spanish speakers to animals. (7) Sharing deep state conspiracy theories. 2/3

(8) Public homages to a racial theorist (Cardona), who thought non-Catalan Spaniards had been ruined by Afro-Semitic blood. (9) A bad fart joke. (10) Saying the national police shouldn't have the right to investigate radical Catalan nationalists accused of making explosives. 3/3