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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
2026-09-06 19:36:45 +02:00

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CASE 073 | Undisclosed | December ?, 2020 | UAE
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DATABASE RECORD
id 73
date December ?, 2020
original_date December ?, 2020
year 2020
month 12
quarter 2020-Q4
victim Undisclosed
location Dubai, UAE
country UAE
scenario Dodged Attack
description 4 Ukrainian men attack Bitcoin buyer with deodorant. Victims scream for help, attackers flee.
kidnappings 0
violence_torture 1
drugs_alcohol 0
weapons 1
theft 0
life_taken 0
money_wanted Dh500,000
coin_type Cash
reports GulfNews, Gulf today
notes failed attempt - the victims screamed for help after they were ambushed while waiting for a p2p trade seller to appear
has_processed_date 0
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:** Undisclosed
**Attackers:** Unknown number of perpetrators
**Attack Method:** Dodged Attack
**Violence Used:** Physical violence
**Crypto Stolen:** Dh500,000 in Cash
**Status:** Investigation ongoing
LINKED SOURCES
[url] https://gulfnews.com/uae/crime/attempt-to-rob-dh500000-foiled-in-dubai-gang-of-four-members-arrested-1.76204045
NOTES ON THIS FILE
* matched to sheet row 74: identical source URL plus corroborating article text, approved
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ARTICLE 1
Source GulfNews, Gulf today
URL https://gulfnews.com/uae/crime/attempt-to-rob-dh500000-foiled-in-dubai-gang-of-four-members-arrested-1.76204045
Origin reported_K&R sheet, row 74, column "Articles"
Length 1,572 chars
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Attempt to rob Dh500,000 foiled in Dubai, gang of four members arrested
Defendants attacked bitcoin buyer and his friends and sprayed deodorants on their faces
Robbers in Dubai tried to snatch Dh500,000 in cash from an investor who wanted to buy bitcoins. Picture for illustrative purposes only.
Image Credit: Gulf News Archives
Dubai: A group of four Dubai-based expatriates has been accused of attempted robbery of Dh500,000 from an investor in a fraudulent bitcoin transaction.
According to the Dubai Court of First Instance, the four Ukrainian defendants aged between 28 and 34 years, broke into an office in the Al Barsha area of Dubai and tried to steal the cryptocurrency after attacking the investor and two of his friends.
A 33-year-old Egyptian witness, who was told by the investor and another person to join them in buying the cryptocurrency, said that he went to the office carrying Dh500,000 in cash in a bag. “A man told us to wait until the arrival of the bitcoin seller. As they were getting late, the victim told the man that they would leave, when the door opened and the four Ukrainian suspects came in, attacked the victim and tried to steal the money,” said the Egyptian witness.
The four defendants physically assaulted the victims and sprayed a deodorant directly on to the victims faces.
“As the victim raised an alarm, screaming thieves ... thieves the attackers couldnt steal the money and they escaped from the spot,” added the Egyptian witness.
Dubai Police have arrested all the four defendants who were charged with attempted robbery.
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ARTICLE 2
Source GulfNews, Gulf today
URL (no URL recorded for this column)
Origin reported_K&R sheet, row 74, column "Article 2"
Length 1,219 chars
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European gang attempts to rob Dhs500,000 from three Arabs
The Dubai Public Prosecution arrested and referred a four-member European gang of to the criminal court for attempting to rob three Arabs of Dhs500,000 during a bitcoin exchange deal in Dubai.
The incident dates back to August 2019.
One of the victims filed a report against the four defendants, claiming that they attempted to rob his money during his visit to an office, which was trading in bitcoin.
The victim testified that he was in the company of two of his friends, with a bag of Dhs500,000, to buy bitcoin with a value less than the market.
The victims were asked to wait for the office to open. The Arabs were suddenly interrupted by the Europeans.
The four of them assaulted the victims and tried to take away the bag of money, but luckily, the victims were screaming loudly and one of them had used his body deodorant to spray on the robbers faces.
The defendants got scared and left the scene before being able to rob the Arabs of Dhs500,000. Police identified the defendants and successfully apprehended each one of them.
The defendants confessed to being engaged in a fight with the victims, but with no intention of stealing their money.
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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 gulfnews.com
URL https://gulfnews.com/uae/crime/attempt-to-rob-dh500000-foiled-in-dubai-gang-of-four-members-arrested-1.76204045
Field url
Retrieved 2026-09-05T12:54:19+00:00 via raw HTTP retrieval, deterministic extraction (HTTP 200)
Language unknown
Kept paragraphs headline [0] + 2-13 excl [9, 10, 11, 12] of 18
Length 1,520 chars
Integrity sha256 7cf7b6e0ccab211843ece76993faaff27d8e42ac3dc8343123cf84555af37ef9
Trimmed AUTO-TRIMMED, unreviewed: kept paragraphs 2-13 plus headline [0]; dropped 1 leading and 4 trailing paragraphs and 4 interior furniture line(s). Case-term hits on page: 17.
Caveat retrieved from a live page on the date above. Unlike text copied
from the spreadsheet, there is no second copy to hash it against.
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ORIGINAL (unknown, verbatim as retrieved)
Attempt to rob Dh500,000 foiled in Dubai, gang of four members arrested
Robbers in Dubai tried to snatch Dh500,000 in cash from an investor who wanted to buy bitcoins. Picture for illustrative purposes only.Gulf News Archives
Dubai: A group of four Dubai-based expatriates has been accused of attempted robbery of Dh500,000 from an investor in a fraudulent bitcoin transaction.
According to the Dubai Court of First Instance, the four Ukrainian defendants aged between 28 and 34 years, broke into an office in the Al Barsha area of Dubai and tried to steal the cryptocurrency after attacking the investor and two of his friends.
A 33-year-old Egyptian witness, who was told by the investor and another person to join them in buying the cryptocurrency, said that he went to the office carrying Dh500,000 in cash in a bag. “A man told us to wait until the arrival of the bitcoin seller. As they were getting late, the victim told the man that they would leave, when the door opened and the four Ukrainian suspects came in, attacked the victim and tried to steal the money,” said the Egyptian witness.
The four defendants physically assaulted the victims and sprayed a deodorant directly on to the victims faces.
“As the victim raised an alarm, screaming thieves ... thieves the attackers couldnt steal the money and they escaped from the spot,” added the Egyptian witness.
Dubai Police have arrested all the four defendants who were charged with attempted robbery.
The next hearing is scheduled for January 11.
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generated from attacks-export-Gart-website.json + reported_K&R | case 073
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