Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg was fined on Monday for disobeying police at a rally last month, but said she acted out of necessity due to the climate crisis.Thunberg said she had acted out of necessity, citing the need created by the "climate crisis".
“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.