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"Necessity defense" is an actual legal concept. My local law for example defines it as:
While in principle it is meant for situations like "aggressively pushing someone out of the way of a runaway tram", it has been successfully used by protesters to get acquitted for acts of civil disobedience.
Plus, at worst she'll have to pay like 200€ total in fines.
I don't expect her to be overly bothered getting a conviction and a fine for protesting. That's more of a feather in her hat than any sort of punishment.