Australia�s prime minister on Sunday suggested an anti-Muslim senator should be charged after he slapped a teen who cracked a raw egg over the legislator�s head.

Sen. Fraser Anning has been widely condemned for blaming Muslim immigration for racist attacks on two New Zealand mosques that claimed at least 50 lives.

Will Connolly, the 17-year-old boy who egged Anning, has become an online hero for the incident, which was captured on video.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Sunday took Connolly�s side, telling reporters: �The full force of the law should be applied to Sen. Anning.�

Police allege Connolly, who calls himself �Egg Boy� online, assaulted the senator with the egg.

Anning �retaliated and struck the teen twice� before Connolly was dragged to the ground by Anning supporters, a police statement said.

�The incident is being actively investigated by Victoria Police in its entirety,� the statement said, including Anning�s actions.

Anning came under blistering criticism over tweets on Friday, 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.

Anning has now been assigned a federal police security detail, a precaution usually reserved for the prime minister.

Anning has since doubled down on the comments, and defended hitting the boy across the face:

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern for the first time on Sunday joined the public condemnation of Anning.

Asked by a journalist what she thought of Anning�s comments, she replied simply: �They�re a disgrace.�

A GoFundMe page set up to raise 2,000 Australia dollars ($1,400) to pay for Connolly�s �legal fees� and �more eggs� had exceeded AU$25,000 on Sunday.

The site says most of the money will go to Christchurch victims.

�Love the spunk of egg boy who puts his egg where we�d like it to be!� donor Val Lehmann-Monck posted.

�This kid is awesome. The senator will not get re-elected due to the publicity and those comments and his reaction,� donor Nikhil Reddy wrote.

After the egging, Anning supporters pinned Connolly to the ground until journalists appealed for him to be allowed back on his feet, The Sun-Herald newspaper reported.

Far-right activist Neil Erikson, who was involved in tackling Connolly, shouted for reporters to be removed from the area.

�Get the journalists out of here … If you don�t like, get out,� Erikson was quoted as saying.

Police say they arrested Connolly, took his details and then released him without charge.

Connolly urged his online followers not to follow his example.

�Don�t egg politicians. You get tackled by 30 bogans at the same time,� he said in a video, using Australian slang for a poor, ignorant white person.

�I learnt the hard way,� he added.

(AP)