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DB-cleanup/merge-output/sources/044_Unidentified.txt
StellarCrowandClaude Fable 5.1 439e83a4cb feat(sources): Wayback pass, automatic trimming, detention rule, ten cases re-sourced
Second and third rounds on the dossier pipeline, reviewed locally before commit.

Retrieval
- wayback_pass.py: retries every BLOCKED/DEAD/THIN/ERROR linked source through
  the Wayback Machine; blocks carry the snapshot date, archive URL and the live
  verdict. 143 slots retried: 93 fetched, 37 no snapshot, 12 script shells, 1 PDF.
- fetch_sources.py: fetch_wayback() helper.
- add_extra_sources.py: files staged extra_* finds (web search, not on the DB
  record) into the store with a provenance note.
- Cases re-sourced by web search: 248 (Oslo: Document.no, Avisa Oslo, NRK; the
  linked Le Parisien piece is case 242 and is marked OFF-CASE), 258 Kharkiv,
  260 Singapore, 358 Bangkok, 365 Las Vegas, 388 Verneuil-sur-Seine, 390 Zoersel,
  430 Homestead. 341 of 364 cases now hold a fetched article; 11, 66 and 399
  have no public text source (podcast, police video, direct victim report).

Trimming
- auto_trim.py: case-anchored furniture cut for UNTRIMMED blocks. Finds the body
  run that mentions the case, merges across subheadings and short furniture
  gaps, drops teasers, share bars, date/URL/caption lines and subscription
  pitches; refuses pages with no record term or almost no body. 302 blocks
  trimmed; 16 left on auto-trim-review.md (7 OFF-CASE suspects). Every cut is
  labelled AUTO-TRIMMED, UNREVIEWED in the dossier; the full extract stays in
  staging/. Decisions with anchors in trim-decisions-auto.json.
- build_cases.py / verify_all.py: banners for auto-trimmed and archived blocks,
  staged-file check extended to Wayback blocks, flag legend under the record.

Detention rule
- README "Definitions": the DB field `kidnappings` is the DETENTION violence
  type (victim, guard, staff or relative held to force submission or execute
  the theft), distinct from the Kidnapping scenario (taken away and held).
- detention-flag-review.md / detention-flag-corrections.json: 40 records
  reviewed with evidence; 30 set-to-1 proposals accepted by the owner on
  2026-09-06 (listed in corrections-approved.md), 10 still open.
- apply_detention_wording.py: "Violence Used" in the 70 reviewed summaries now
  names detention explicitly (62 of 70 labelled), supported by the summary's
  own text; idempotent; supersedes the batch scripts' wording.

Worklist and docs
- sofia-worklist.md: 248 decisions, detention rule item replacing the old
  "no abduction" item, fresh-search section for the textless cases.
- README-START-HERE.md: progress notes, run commands, next steps.
- Bug fixed in passing: Wayback blocks stored in-memory text with carriage
  returns; now stored as read back from disk.

verify_all.py PASSES (2321 checks).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GZZENdTLzNGsbNy4DyF1yt
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CASE 044 | Unidentified | June 19, 2018 | Austria
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DATABASE RECORD
id 44
date June 19, 2018
original_date June 19, 2018
year 2018
month 6
quarter 2018-Q2
victim Unidentified
location Wels, Austria
country Austria
scenario Authority Misuse
description $250,000 in cryptocurrency taken by robbers posing as postmen
kidnappings 1
violence_torture 1
drugs_alcohol 0
weapons 1
theft 1
life_taken 0
money_wanted 210000
coin_type eur
reports CT-de Unzensuriert
notes posing as postmen
has_processed_date 1
created_at 2025-11-13 05:44:45
(flag legend: 'kidnappings' is the DETENTION flag — 1 when the victim was held against
their will at any point, tied, locked in, held at gunpoint or taken away; it is NOT the
same as the 'Kidnapping' scenario, which means taken away and held. See README, Definitions.)
AI SUMMARY [generated at bulk import, NOT verified against sources]
**Victim:** Unidentified
**Attackers:** Individuals misusing authority
**Attack Method:** Authority Misuse - victim kidnapped
**Violence Used:** Physical violence
**Crypto Stolen:** 210000 in eur
**Status:** Investigation ongoing
LINKED SOURCES
[url] https://de.cointelegraph.com/news/gericht-in-osterreich-beginnt-verfahren-gegen-krypto-rauberbande
NOTES ON THIS FILE
* matched to sheet row 45: exact date + country, unique candidate
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ARTICLE 1
Source CT-de Unzensuriert
URL https://de.cointelegraph.com/news/gericht-in-osterreich-beginnt-verfahren-gegen-krypto-rauberbande
Origin reported_K&R sheet, row 45, column "Articles"
Length 1,678 chars
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Court in Austria Begins Trial Against Crypto Robbery Gang
In the Austrian city of Wels, five men must answer in court for a robbery and theft amounting to approximately 210,000 euros in cryptocurrency.
The mastermind is reportedly a 21-year-old Upper Austrian who planned the robbery together with his father, who has a prior criminal record and will be tried separately.
The five men involved are charged with kidnapping, aggravated robbery, coercion, and extortion. Some defendants, who mostly confessed according to their lawyers, claimed they thought it was just a debt collection action.
One man had apparently invested a five-digit sum with the robbed crypto trader and lost it. He intended to collect this "debt," but the situation escalated into what he described as a "terrible dynamic."
During the robbery, the perpetrators pretended to be postal delivery workers to gain access to the apartment. They tied the trader with tape to a chair in a storage room and also tied up the traders partner and their baby in the bedroom.
The victims were threatened with knives for an hour and a half to reveal access codes to various online exchanges. The men stole cryptocurrency worth 210,000 euros, which one perpetrator managed to transfer, as well as jewelry, gold coins, electronic devices, and expensive designer clothing.
This case highlights a violent home invasion linked to cryptocurrency theft using deception by false postal workers in Wels, Austria Gericht in Österreich beginnt Verfahren gegen Krypto-Räuberbande, In der österreichischen Stadt Wels müssen sich fünf Männer wegen eines Überfalls und Raubes von umgerechnet 210.000 Euro vor Gericht verantworten... .
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ARTICLE 2
Source CT-de Unzensuriert
URL (no URL recorded for this column)
Origin reported_K&R sheet, row 45, column "Article 2"
Length 735 chars
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Wels: Turkish Bitcoin Trader Attacked by Chechen Thugs
The rise of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin is attracting more and more criminals. Recently, a trial was held in the Upper Austrian city of Wels against a five-member gang of robbers. There, two Austrian main perpetrators hired three Chechen thugs the previous year to jointly attack a Turkish Bitcoin trader. During the assault on the Bitcoin trader's apartment, his wife was dragged by her hair and abused, and threats were made to kidnap their nine-month-old baby.
Intimidated by the continued extortion and coercion, the Bitcoin trader revealed access codes to his Bitcoin wallets to the violent intruders, allowing them to withdraw approximately 210,000 euros in cryptocurrency.
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FETCHED ARTICLE 1 [AUTO-TRIMMED — UNREVIEWED]
!! Furniture was cut by a script keyed on this case's record, not by a person.
!! It may still carry passages about OTHER cases from a round-up article.
!! The full page extract is kept in staging/ if a cut needs revisiting.
Source de.cointelegraph.com
URL https://de.cointelegraph.com/news/gericht-in-osterreich-beginnt-verfahren-gegen-krypto-rauberbande
Field url
Retrieved 2026-09-05T13:32:01+00:00 via Wayback Machine snapshot 20251215021412, deterministic extraction (HTTP None)
Language unknown
Kept paragraphs headline [0] + 1-8 of 9
Length 2,251 chars
Integrity sha256 db124920768dbdefb45e12dea7c12162930f908daef4b5b475eb0427831e3208
Trimmed AUTO-TRIMMED, unreviewed: kept paragraphs 1-8 plus headline [0]; dropped 0 leading and 0 trailing paragraphs. Case-term hits on page: 1 (WEAK anchor, confirm the page is about this case).
Note live URL was DEAD on the first pass; text comes from an archived copy dated 2025-12-15
Archive http://web.archive.org/web/20251215021412/https://de.cointelegraph.com/news/gericht-in-osterreich-beginnt-verfahren-gegen-krypto-rauberbande
Caveat retrieved from a Wayback Machine snapshot, not the live page. The
snapshot date is in the method line; the live URL was unreadable.
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ORIGINAL (unknown, verbatim as retrieved)
Gericht in Österreich beginnt Verfahren gegen Krypto-Räuberbande
In Österreich müssen sich fünf Männer wegen des Diebstahls von umgerechnet 210.000 Euro an Kryptowährung vor Gericht verantworten.
In der österreichischen Stadt Wels müssen sich fünf Männer wegen eines Überfalls und Raubes von umgerechnet 210.000 Euro vor Gericht verantworten, meldete OÖNachrichten am 27. März.
Bei dem Drahtzieher soll es sich um einen 21-jährigen Oberösterreicher handeln, der den Überfall gemeinsam mit seinem bereits vorbestraften Vater geplant habe. Dieser werde aufgrund seiner kriminellen Vorgeschichte in einem gesonderten Verfahren verfolgt, schreibt die Nachrichtenseite.
Den an dem Überfall beteiligten fünf Männern wird erpresserische Entführung, schwerer Raub, schwere Nötigung und schwere Erpressung vorgeworfen. Einige der nach Aussagen ihrer Verteidiger im Wesentlichen geständigen Männer geben an, nur von einer Schuldeneintreibungsaktion ausgegangen zu sein.
Einer der Männer hatte offenbar vor dem Überfall bei dem beraubten Krypto-Trader einen fünfstelligen Betrag angelegt und verloren. Diese “Schulden” habe er eintreiben wollen, die Sache habe dann aber eine nach seinen Worten “furchtbare Eigendynamik” entwickelt.
Bei dem Überfall gaben sich die Täter als Paketzusteller aus, um sich Zugang zur Wohnung zu verschaffen. Den Trader fesselten sie in einem Abstellraum mit Klebeband an einen Stuhl und brachten dessen Lebensgefährtin mit ihrem ebenfalls anwesenden Baby in das Schlafzimmer, wo sie ebenfalls gefesselt wurde.
Während des eineinhalb Stunden dauernden Überfalls wurden die Opfer mit dem Messer bedroht, um die Zugangscodes zu diversen Online-Börsen zu bekommen. Neben Kryptowährung im Wert von 210.000 Euro, das einer der Täter transferieren konnte, erbeuteten die Männer auch Schmuck, Goldmünzen, Elektronikgeräte sowie teure Markenkleidung.
Zu Überfällen von Krypto-Dieben kommt es immer wieder. Bei einem Überfall im letzten Jahr war ein russischer Geschäftsmann als Geisel genommen worden, bis dieser sich an seinem Computer anmeldete und umgerechnet rund 81.000 Euro in Bitcoin an seine Angreifer überwies. Ein anderer russischer Investor war bei einem ähnlichen Krypto-Raub um umgerechnet 348.000 Euro bestohlen worden.
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generated from attacks-export-Gart-website.json + reported_K&R | case 044
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