Two men admit filming antisemitic abuse on TikTok

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Two men who filmed themselves verbally abusing a Jewish man in northeast London for content on social media have pleaded guilty to an antisemitic hate crime, police have said.

Adam Bedoui, 20, and Abdelkader Amir Bousloub, 21, travelled to Clapton Common, a predominantly Jewish area, on Thursday evening and filmed the encounter on TikTok.

The Metropolitan Police said the pair attempted to flee the scene but were detained by officers.

They appeared at Thames Magistrates' Court on Saturday where they pleaded guilty to a religiously aggravated public order offence.

They will be sentenced at the same court on Friday, 5 June.

Police said five men in total were arrested following the incident - two 20-year-old men and a 21-year-old man have been released on bail.

Det Supt Oliver Richter, who leads policing in Hackney and Tower Hamlets, said: "This was a deliberate and targeted antisemitic attack, aggravated by the pair's intention to post the incident on social media to spread hatred.

"It is completely unacceptable and has no place in London."

He added that the Met would act "decisively against anyone who commits hate crime" and that all reports would be treated with the "utmost seriousness".

The Met says that over the past four weeks its officers have arrested around 50 people for antisemitic hate crimes, with 10 individuals charged.

There have been a string of attacks at synagogues and other Jewish sites in recent months, including the stabbing of two Jewish men in Golders Green, north London, a fortnight ago.

Earlier this year in March, four Jewish charity-owned Hatzola ambulances were set on fire in the car park of a synagogue in Golders Green.

Two Jewish people were killed and three were left in a serious condition in October last year after a car ramming and stabbing attack outside a synagogue in Manchester.