🛡️ Can I hit back if attacked in Hungary?

Yes — the law stands with the attacked, and demands no heroic calculus in the moment of terror. Under the Criminal Code, whatever is necessary to repel an unlawful attack is not punishable — the attacked owes no retreat, and the law adds: exceeding the necessary measure out of fright or excusable agitation isn't punished either. The situational self-defence rule is Hungarian law's strong card: intruders entering a home (or fenced property) at night, armed, carrying weapons or in groups are presumed to attack life — meaning defence may reach the ultimate means. The limits: defence is lawful during the attack — the 'punitive' blow after the fleeing thief is a crime; preventive defence (protective installations) is lawful only with non-lethal means; and mutual consensual fights ground no self-defence. Property defence can't kill: against the sneak thief the necessary — not the maximal — force is the yardstick.