Slovak Deputy Environment Minister Štefan Kuffa interrupted a theater performance of the Košice National Theater in one of the villages in eastern Slovakia on Sunday. It was announced by actress Ľuba Blaškovičová, who plays in the performance, and also by journalist Lukáš Marhefka, who was at the event as a spectator. In response, Kuffa claimed that a perverted film was being shown there and that he and a colleague were assaulted.
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Štefan Kuffa was elected as an MP on the candidate list of the nationalist Slovak National Party (SNS) in last year’s early parliamentary elections | Source: Profimedia
“The Censor, Secretary of State Kuffa intervened – directly entered – the performance, stopped it and turned the audience away… the performance was interrupted… a dispute between him and the audience…,” she wrote Blaškovičová.
“He began to determine who the show was suitable for, who was not suitable, who should remain seated and who should not sit there. He arbitrarily interrupted the performance of the actress,” stated Marhefka about the incident in the village of Malá Franková. He added that Kuffa did not want to leave the premises until the mayor brought him out.
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“We had a nice evening, there was a folklore event, a holy mass. At the end, a perverted film was played, with small children on stage. I pointed out that they shouldn’t play it, that it’s inappropriate. I urged the parents to send the children away. We were attacked with sticks,” he claimed Kuffa. According to him, the attackers were actors or stagehands from the theater.
Kuffa holds strongly conservative views. In the past, as a member of the Slovak Chamber of Deputies, he spoke out against abortions and unsuccessfully promoted a proposal to include artificial insemination as a criminal offense.
Together with his son Filip, who is also a deputy at the Ministry of the Environment, and another son Gregor, he faces charges on suspicion of threatening an employee of an agricultural company in connection with the 2021 incident.
In last year’s early parliamentary elections, Štefan Kuffa was elected as an MP on the candidate list of the nationalist Slovak National Party (SNS). After entering the government, she proposed to the Minister of Culture Martina Šimkovičová, who is now facing criticism from artists and the opposition for dismissing the directors of the Slovak National Theater and the Slovak National Gallery.
Like SNS, Šimkovičová opposes liberals and topics related to sexual minorities.
In the past, Štefan Kuffa was elected as an MP on the candidate list of the now opposition movement Slovakia (formerly OLaNO) of ex-prime minister Igor Matovič and later on the candidate list of the far-right party Kotlebovci-Lidová strana Naše Slovensko (LSNS).
In 2016, the chairman of the LSNS and the then governor of the Banskobystrica Region, Marian Kotleba, ordered the early termination of a theater performance from the workshop of a smaller group, which he did not like, allegedly due to indecent expressions.
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