The Australian prime minister is siding with “Egg Boy.”
Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Sunday suggested that the far right politician who was egged by a 17-year-old boy should be charged for retaliating by hitting the teen.
“The full force of the law should be applied to Sen. Anning,” Morrison said.
Queensland Senator Fraser Anning — who blamed immigration for the New Zealand mosque massacres — attacked the teen on live television after the young man smashed a raw egg on his head.
A teenager dubbed "egg boy" has become the talk of the internet after he threw an egg at an Australian politician who blamed Muslim immigration for the Christchurch terror attack | https://t.co/BvG85snWej pic.twitter.com/XSXMNUmvL1
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) March 17, 2019
Victoria police arrested and then released the teen — who goes by “Egg Boy” online — and said they’re investigating Friday’s incident “in its entirety.”
A GoFundMe set up to raise money for the teen’s “legal fees” and “more eggs” had raised over $30,000 in a day. The site says most of the money will go to victims of the Christchurch massacre.
This report originally appeared on NYPost.com.
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