Known around the world as ‘Egg Boy,’ Will Connolly cracked an egg on Sen. Fraser Anning’s head as the legislator spoke at a news conference after the Christchurch mosque shootings
In this image made from video, a teenager breaks an egg on the head of Australian Sen. Fraser Anning while he holds a news conference, on March 16, 2019.An Australian teen known around the world as “Egg Boy” conceded on Monday that egging a far-right senator was not the right thing to do, but said the gesture united a world reeling from a white supremacist’s alleged massacre of 50 Muslims in New Zealand.
Connolly said he was embarrassed that the international attention he had attracted with the egging, which was caught on video, had distracted attention from the victims in Christchurch. A GoFundMe page set up to raise 2,000 Australia dollars to pay for Connolly’s “legal fees” and “more eggs” reached AU$80,000 on Monday.He said he hasn’t had time to think about how he will respond to offers from supporters such as a vacation in Turkey and a lifetime of free beer in Canada and Wales.
Anning came under blistering criticism over tweets within hours of the massacre, including one that said, “Does anyone still dispute the link between Muslim immigration and violence?”“The real cause of the bloodshed on New Zealand streets today is the immigration program which allowed Muslim fanatics to migrate to New Zealand in the first place,” he said in a later statement.
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