PLK. Rapper PLK, whose real name is Mathieu Pruski, will be tried in October for “willful violence” against a police officer.
Appointment with justice in the fall. The 25-year-old rapper PLK, from the Paris region, has been placed under judicial supervision pending this hearing, the Montpellier prosecutor’s office told AFP on Tuesday July 19. “The person concerned is accused, at the end of a concert which took place on July 18 in La Grande-Motte (Hérault), of having participated in an altercation which motivated the intervention of the municipal police” , said in a message to AFP the public prosecutor in Montpellier, Fabrice Bélargent.
The rapper PLK was presented to the prosecution on Tuesday July 19. He is “prosecuted for willful violence not having resulted in an ITT of more than eight days on the depositary of public authority in legal recidivism”, specified Fabrice Bélargent. And to detail: “While the police were trying to separate the protagonists, the respondent hit a municipal police officer with a punch in the face.” Following this altercation, the police officer in question suffered a day of total incapacity for work (ITT).
Born on April 15, 1997, Mathieu Pruski, better known as PLK, made a name for himself in 2015 by releasing his first EPs, then signing with the Panenka Music label in 2017. His first album, Polak, released in October 2018, propelled his notoriety and made him one of the most popular French rappers. In 2021, he participates in the project Le classico organized, initiated by the Marseillais Jul. Listened to by 3.5 million people per month on Spotify, PLK also has millions of views on YouTube.