DB-cleanup/merge-output/build_overrides_batch5.py

import json, io, sys
sys.stdout = io.TextIOWrapper(sys.stdout.buffer, encoding="utf-8", errors="replace")
PATH = __file__[:__file__.rfind("build_overrides")] + "summary-overrides.json"
existing = json.load(open(PATH, encoding="utf-8"))

def s(*cats):
    return "\n\n".join(cats)

B = {}

B["266"] = s(
 "**Victims:** Four young cryptocurrency holders (aged 18\u201324) in the Busca neighbourhood of Toulouse, France.",
 "**Attackers:** Two men, aged 19 and 34, whom the victims had met through an online sales site; both were arrested.",
 "**Attack Method:** In late October 2017 the four gathered with the two men in one of their apartments; the visitors opened a suitcase, pulled out a weapon and ordered the group to transfer $20,000 in Bitcoin.",
 "**Violence Used:** The four were held at gunpoint and locked inside the apartment.",
 "**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** The Bitcoin transfer failed; instead the two robbed the victims of their smartphones, identity papers, money and keys before locking them in.",
 "**Status:** The captives climbed over a balcony to alert police. Investigators traced the pair \u2014 one arrested in Blagnac, the other in Saint-Girons (Ari\u00e8ge) \u2014 and charged them with kidnapping, armed robbery and attempted extortion, with pre-trial detention.",
)

B["263"] = s(
 "**Victims:** Waleed, a trader in the Kahna area near Lahore, Pakistan, targeted for his alleged involvement in Bitcoin trading (police referred to him only as a \"businessman\").",
 "**Attackers:** A Crime Control Department (CCD) inspector, Javed Iqbal (posted at CCD Kotwali), Constable Tauseef, and two unidentified accomplices \u2014 a case officials called a major embarrassment for the provincial police.",
 "**Attack Method:** The suspects, in plain clothes, raided his home and seized his laptop, three mobile phones and the CCTV DVR (apparently to destroy evidence) before abducting him, using a rented vehicle.",
 "**Violence Used:** He was held captive and, on the second forced call to his family, threatened with death if the ransom was not paid.",
 "**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** The kidnappers first demanded Rs50 million, then reduced it to Rs4 million after negotiation; the family paid, handing the ransom over near the Lahore Orange Line Station.",
 "**Status:** Waleed was released soon after. His family complained to Kahna Police, who arrested Inspector Javed Iqbal and Constable Tauseef and handed them to CCD Model Town for interrogation; officials framed it as a sting to root out corrupt officers.",
)

B["256"] = s(
 "**Victims:** A 42-year-old cryptocurrency professional at his property in Rambouillet, Yvelines, France.",
 "**Attackers:** Four suspects \u2014 three men and a woman \u2014 all arrested.",
 "**Attack Method:** Around 9:00 a.m. on Friday 26 September 2025 the victim saw the four scaling his fence and alerted police; a patrol surprised a man and a woman still inside the property, arrested a third suspect in a Renault Clio on the street and stopped the fourth nearby as he fled on foot.",
 "**Violence Used:** The intruders were armed \u2014 one with a switchblade, another with a fake firearm \u2014 but the attempt was foiled and no one was harmed.",
 "**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** None; the attack was stopped before any theft and no financial harm was reported.",
 "**Status:** They had planned to target the victim for his crypto involvement. All four were placed in custody and the Versailles Brigade for the Repression of Banditry is investigating, with their phones under analysis.",
)

B["253"] = s(
 "**Victims:** An injured youth in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada (near Saginaw Parkway and Townline Road).",
 "**Attackers:** Five unknown suspects, described as Black men in their twenties wearing dark clothing and face coverings; no arrests are recorded.",
 "**Attack Method:** Around 9:48 p.m. on 5 September 2025 the victim was forced into a dark-coloured van by the five and driven off.",
 "**Violence Used:** Inside the van he was physically assaulted and threatened with a firearm; he was later taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.",
 "**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** He was forced to transfer money into a cryptocurrency wallet; the amount was not disclosed.",
 "**Status:** The suspects released him and fled along Townline Road. Waterloo Regional Police's General Investigations Unit has an active investigation and has appealed for witnesses and dashcam or surveillance footage.",
)

B["252"] = s(
 "**Victims:** A young Swiss national (recorded as 23) kidnapped in Valence, Dr\u00f4me, France.",
 "**Attackers:** Seven suspects \u2014 a primary suspect and two others, with four more arrested as investigators located the victim \u2014 facing charges of kidnapping and arbitrary detention for ransom, extortion by an organised gang with a weapon, and criminal conspiracy.",
 "**Attack Method:** He was seized in Valence and held for several days, and was found tied up in a house near the Valence-TGV station.",
 "**Violence Used:** He was held captive and found bound; the linked report does not describe the treatment further.",
 "**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** The kidnappers demanded a ransom in cryptocurrency; there is no indication it was paid.",
 "**Status:** Acting on a 30 August tip-off, the GIGN elite unit \u2014 with the Grenoble research section and close to 150 gendarmerie judicial-police personnel \u2014 raided on 31 August, freed him and arrested seven suspects, with the case under the Lyon JIRS.",
)

B["249"] = s(
 "**Victims:** A Chinese businessman who runs a store on R.A. De Mel Mawatha in Colpetty, Colombo, Sri Lanka.",
 "**Attackers:** A group of Chinese nationals resident in Sri Lanka, who allegedly targeted a fellow countryman.",
 "**Attack Method:** He was abducted around 9:00 p.m. on Friday 22 August 2025, taken away in a vehicle and held captive in a building for about a day.",
 "**Violence Used:** He sustained injuries during the abduction and was later treated at a private hospital in Narahenpita.",
 "**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** During his confinement the suspects transferred about US$60,000 (recorded as USDT) out of his holdings online.",
 "**Status:** The suspects abandoned him at a roadside on the Saturday afternoon; he filed a complaint with Colpetty Police and investigations are under way.",
)

B["248"] = s(
 "**Victims:** A Norwegian family in Oslo \u2014 a mother and her three children.",
 "**Attackers:** Robbers who posed as food-delivery workers; nine people were later charged, with one man apprehended. They reportedly acted on a handler's tip that the family held cryptocurrency, raising suspicion of a third-party data leak.",
 "**Attack Method:** Disguised as a food delivery, the robbers forced their way into the family's home, tied the family up, and searched the house for a Ledger hardware wallet.",
 "**Violence Used:** They tied up the family and beat the mother, threatening to shoot her unless the family handed over their cryptocurrency.",
 "**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** They demanded the family's cryptocurrency; the record indicates no theft was completed.",
 "**Status:** Nine people were later charged, with one man apprehended. (Note: the source currently linked to this record is the wrong article \u2014 it describes a separate Suresnes, France assault \u2014 so these details come from the database record and still need a correct Oslo source.)",
)

B["247"] = s(
 "**Victims:** An unidentified man who works in cryptocurrency, a guest at the Peninsula Hotel on Kl\u00e9ber Avenue in the 16th arrondissement of Paris.",
 "**Attackers:** Five men, all arrested; investigators linked them to a nearby nightclub where the victim allegedly owed \u20ac40,000, leaving it unclear whether this was a crypto kidnapping or forced debt collection.",
 "**Attack Method:** On the evening of Tuesday 5 August 2025, around 7:15 p.m., five men approached the hotel guest \u2014 telling him \"you give us 400,000 euros and that's it\" \u2014 and forcibly took him to the area of the Arc de Triomphe.",
 "**Violence Used:** He was beaten and threatened, and said the same suspects had displayed a weapon during an incident the week before.",
 "**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** They seized a hard drive holding \u20ac2 million in bitcoin, along with his iPhone 13 Pro Max.",
 "**Status:** Anti-crime police quickly located and arrested the five, who were taken into custody at the first judicial police district on extortion charges.",
)

B["246"] = s(
 "**Victims:** A 30-year-old Chinese national in Para\u00f1aque City, Philippines; a woman who had come to the same resort to exchange money was also held and identified as a second victim.",
 "**Attackers:** Four Chinese nationals, arrested, who had initially offered to help the victim send money to China.",
 "**Attack Method:** The victim had asked them to help remit PHP 150,000 for his mother's medical treatment and had already handed over PHP 100,000; he agreed to meet at a resort-casino to complete it, but while in transit was handcuffed, blindfolded and threatened with a firearm.",
 "**Violence Used:** He was handcuffed, blindfolded and threatened with a firearm.",
 "**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** The suspects demanded US$50,000 (about PHP 2.8 million) for his release; he was rescued before any payment.",
 "**Status:** He talked the suspects into returning his phone, contacted another Chinese national who called 911, and was rescued from the resort on 2 August by Para\u00f1aque City police and the PNP Anti-Kidnapping Group; four suspects were arrested and a second victim, a woman whose cash had been taken, was found with them.",
)

B["245"] = s(
 "**Victims:** Prince Pandey, a cryptocurrency trader in Ahmedabad, India, and the son of a retired Army Subedar Major.",
 "**Attackers:** Three men, all arrested \u2014 Karan Tarunbhai Nair (19), the acquaintance who set up the meeting, Harsh Ajaybhai Thakkar (21) and Kripalsinh Govindsingh Vihol (25), both car-rental operators; a weapon was recovered from them.",
 "**Attack Method:** Pandey had discussed a USDT cash exchange with Nair and was called to meet a supposed customer near Bapunagar Toll Plaza around 2 a.m. on 15 July 2025; on arrival he was forced into a black car with tinted glass and no number plate and moved between locations through the night.",
 "**Violence Used:** He was brutally beaten and, because his crypto wallet had no strong password, repeatedly assaulted to force out his access credentials, suffering significant injuries that required hospital treatment.",
 "**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** The kidnappers demanded he transfer 50,000 USDT (about \u20b942 lakh); the record indicates no transfer was completed.",
 "**Status:** His father alerted police after failing to reach him; the Ahmedabad City Crime Branch traced the route via CCTV and surveillance and rescued him by afternoon, arresting the three accused. Police attributed the motive to a pending crypto-related financial dispute.",
)

existing.update(B)
json.dump(existing, open(PATH, "w", encoding="utf-8"), ensure_ascii=False, indent=2)
print("wrote", len(B), "summaries; file now has", len(existing), "entries")
for k in sorted(B, key=int):
    print(f"  {k}: {len(B[k])} chars")