StellarCrowandClaude Fable 5.1
439e83a4cb
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 266 | Multiple | October ?, 2017 | France
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DATABASE RECORD
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id 266
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date October ?, 2017
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original_date October, 2017
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year 2017
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month 10
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quarter 2017-Q4
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victim Multiple
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location Toulouse, France
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country France
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scenario Home Invasion
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description 4 bitcoin traders robbed at gunpoint
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kidnappings 1
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violence_torture 0
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drugs_alcohol 0
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weapons 1
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theft 1
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life_taken 0
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money_wanted
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coin_type
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reports 20 MINUTES
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notes they met the suspects on a sales site
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has_processed_date 0
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created_at 2025-11-14 09:05:23
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(flag legend: 'kidnappings' is the DETENTION flag — 1 when the victim was held against
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their will at any point, tied, locked in, held at gunpoint or taken away; it is NOT the
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same as the 'Kidnapping' scenario, which means taken away and held. See README, Definitions.)
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AI SUMMARY [revised on review, verified against the sources in this file. Live DB still holds the shorter bulk-import summary — apply this to it.]
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**Victims:** Four young cryptocurrency holders (aged 18–24) in the Busca neighbourhood of Toulouse, France.
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**Attackers:** Two men, aged 19 and 34, whom the victims had met through an online sales site; both were arrested.
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**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.
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**Violence Used:** Detention — the four were held at gunpoint and locked inside the apartment.
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**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.
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**Status:** The captives climbed over a balcony to alert police. Investigators traced the pair — one arrested in Blagnac, the other in Saint-Girons (Ariège) — and charged them with kidnapping, armed robbery and attempted extortion, with pre-trial detention.
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LINKED SOURCES
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[url] https://www.20minutes.fr/toulouse/2180483-20171203-toulouse-quatre-jeunes-sequestres-forces-transferer-bitcoins
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NOTES ON THIS FILE
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* matched to sheet row 18: reviewed and approved individually
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ARTICLE 1
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Source 20 MINUTES
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URL https://www.20minutes.fr/toulouse/2180483-20171203-toulouse-quatre-jeunes-sequestres-forces-transferer-bitcoins
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Origin reported_K&R sheet, row 18, column "Articles"
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Length 1,317 chars
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Toulouse: Four Young People Kidnapped and Forced to Transfer Bitcoins
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A nightmare unfolded for virtual currency holders in Toulouse when two men, aged 19 and 34, were arrested and detained for trying to extort $20,000 in virtual currency (Bitcoin) from four young Toulousains, according to La Dépêche du Midi.
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The incident took place in late October in the Busca neighborhood. The four young people, aged between 18 and 24, gathered in one of their apartments with the two men, who they had met through an online sales site. The "guests" opened a suitcase and pulled out a weapon, ordering the young men to transfer $20,000 worth of virtual currency to them.
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Cut off from the Outside World in an Apartment
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The transaction ultimately failed, but the two perpetrators still managed to rob their victims of smartphones, identity papers, money, and keys before locking them inside the apartment. Isolated from the outside world, the "hostages" had to climb over a balcony to alert authorities.
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Investigators from the criminal brigade of the departmental security forces traced the two men, who were arrested last week. One was caught in Blagnac, near Toulouse, and the other in Saint-Girons, Ariège. They have been charged with "kidnapping, armed robbery, and attempted extortion," and placed in pre-trial detention.
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FETCHED ARTICLE 1 [AUTO-TRIMMED — UNREVIEWED]
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!! Furniture was cut by a script keyed on this case's record, not by a person.
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!! It may still carry passages about OTHER cases from a round-up article.
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!! The full page extract is kept in staging/ if a cut needs revisiting.
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Source 20minutes.fr
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URL https://www.20minutes.fr/toulouse/2180483-20171203-toulouse-quatre-jeunes-sequestres-forces-transferer-bitcoins
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Field url
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Retrieved 2026-09-05T12:46:05+00:00 via raw HTTP retrieval, deterministic extraction (HTTP 200)
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Language unknown
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Kept paragraphs headline [0] + 50-58 of 86
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Length 1,668 chars
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Integrity sha256 450b0b3d80acca1c2ede2446fe5a9f6bc5262c90437e303d6628e32b9cf535c4
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Trimmed AUTO-TRIMMED, unreviewed: kept paragraphs 50-58 plus headline [0]; dropped 49 leading and 27 trailing paragraphs. Case-term hits on page: 5.
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Caveat retrieved from a live page on the date above. Unlike text copied
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from the spreadsheet, there is no second copy to hash it against.
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ORIGINAL (unknown, verbatim as retrieved)
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Toulouse: Quatre jeunes séquestrés et forcés à transférer des bitcoins
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Le mot du jour, 5 lettres (Wordle en français)
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ServicesAnnonces légalesMinutes MaisonSportuneBébés et MamansJournal des SeniorsCuisine d'AnnieMes NoticesInfos trafic
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Quatre jeunes séquestrés et forcés à transférer des bitcoins
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Une vraie nuit de cauchemar pour de la monnaie virtuelle. Deux hommes, de 19 ans et 34, ont été interpellés et écroués pour avoir tenté d’extorquer de la monnaie virtuelle, type bitcoin, à quatre jeunes Toulousains, rapporte La Dépêche du Midi dans son édition du jour.
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La «bulle» du bitcoin va-t-elle éclater?
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Les faits ont eu lieu fin octobre, dans le quartier du Busca. Les quatre jeunes, âgés de 18 à 24 ans, se sont retrouvés dans l’appartement de l’un d’eux avec les deux hommes rencontrés via un site de vente en ligne. Les « invités » ont ouvert une valise et sorti une arme, sommant les jeunes de leur transférer 20.000 dollars de monnaie virtuelle.
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Toujours selon le quotidien régional, la transaction a échoué. Mais les deux malfaiteurs n’ont pas fait le voyage pour rien : smartphones, papiers d’identité, argent, clés… ils ont dépouillé leurs victimes avant de les enfermer à l’intérieur de l’appartement.
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Coupés du monde extérieur, les « otages » ont dû enjamber un balcon pour donner l’alerte.
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Les enquêteurs de la brigade criminelle de la Sûreté départementale ont fini par remonter la piste des deux hommes, interpellés la semaine dernière. L’un a été arrêté à Blagnac, près de Toulouse, l’autre à Saint-Girons, en Ariège. Mis en examen pour « séquestration, vol avec arme et tentative d’extorsion », ils ont été placés en détention préventive.
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generated from attacks-export-Gart-website.json + reported_K&R | case 266
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