Australia's 'Egg Boy' gives donations to NZ attack survivors

An Australian teenager who broke an egg on a controversial far‑right senator's head says he has given almost A$100,000 to survivors of the Christchurch mosque attacks.

17-year-old, Will Connolly egged Fraser Anning in March ‑ prompting people online to dub him "Egg Boy" and flood him with donations to pay his legal expenses.

Anning had caused fury a day earlier when he said Muslim migration was to blame for the Christchurch shootings.

 

 

 

 

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Finally!!! After a huge amount of red tape,$99,922.36 has today been transferred to the Christchurch Foundation and Victims Support. For those of you who don’t know, there were 2 Go Fund Me pages set up to help cover the cost of my legal fees and to ‘buy more eggs’. Gratefully, Gordon Legal acted probono for me so I don’t have any legal fees. I decided to donate all monies to help provide some relief to the victims of the massacre... it wasn’t mine to keep. I want to thank Corey and @sajjad12345 who set up the funds and every single person who donated to the money and made this possible. To the victims of the Tragedy, I whole heartedly hope that this can bring some relief to you. Keep spreading the love. ❤️🙌🏻

A post shared by Will Connolly (@willconnolly__) on May 28, 2019 at 1:19am PDT

Fifty‑one people died in the attacks.

Anning has refused to apologise for his comments, despite a petition which was signed by more than 1.4 million people.

Anning was formally censured by Australia's Senate in April for his "appalling" remarks, made on the day of the shootings.

Connolly confronted the senator from behind as he gave a press conference in Melbourne on 16 March.

Footage of the clash went viral.

It showed Anning physically retaliating before his supporters tackled the teenager to the ground.

[Source: BBC]

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