Two men were charged by the U.K.’s Crown Prosecution Service for religiously aggravated intentional harassment Saturday.

Adam Bedoui, 20, from West Drayton, Hillingdon, and Abdelkader Amir Bousloub, 21, also from the London borough of Hillingdon, traveled to the heavily Jewish neighborhood of Stamford Hill in London for the express purpose of harassing Jews and filming them for an antisemitic TikTok video.

Huw Rogers, Chief Crown Prosecutor for CPS Direct, said, “The Crown Prosecution Service has decided to charge Adam Bedoui, 20, and Abdelkader Amir Bousloub, 21, with religiously aggravated intentional harassment and intentional harassment following an incident where Jewish people in Stamford Hill were being approached, harassed and filmed.”

“Our team of out-of-hours prosecutors from CPS Direct worked to establish that there is sufficient evidence to bring charges and it is in the public interest to pursue criminal proceedings,” he added. “We have worked closely with the Metropolitan Police as it has carried out its investigation.”

The defendants appeared in court later in the day.

A week ago, the chief of the Metropolitan Police, Sir Mark Rowley, said that the rise in attacks on Jews and Jewish institutions in London is “an appalling state of affairs.”

“If you overlay three things now — hate crime, terrorism and hostile state activity — you add all that together, that combined effect with that building of ideology online, that is really dangerous and troubling,” he said. “And Jewish communities feel that, and you can see that in how they talk, how it’s making them change their lives.”

Rowley called for the deployment of an additional 300 police officers to protect Jewish communities in the area, saying that the problem isn’t relegated to “a few racist idiots,” but is “something that is more embedded in society that isn’t being challenged.”

“There’s too much licensing of it in public debate,” he declared, giving voice to a sentiment shared by many Jewish advocates.