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 247 | Unidentified man | August 5, 2025 | France
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DATABASE RECORD
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id 247
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date August 5, 2025
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original_date August 5, 2025
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year 2025
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month 8
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quarter 2025-Q3
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victim Unidentified man
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location Paris, France
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country France
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scenario Kidnapping
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description 5 men threatened, kidnapped, and beat a crypto industry worker before stealing 2M euros in bitcoin from him. The attackers were quickly captured by police.
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kidnappings 1
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violence_torture 1
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drugs_alcohol 0
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weapons 0
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theft 1
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life_taken 0
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money_wanted 2M
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coin_type bitcoin
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reports LePArisien
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notes unclear if debt collectors or kidnappers, took him from hotel out, beaten up, asked for cash that he's supposed to owe, taken electronics and his Ledger wallet with $2M of crypto on it
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has_processed_date 1
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created_at 2025-11-13 05:44:45
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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:** An unidentified man who works in cryptocurrency, a guest at the Peninsula Hotel on Kléber Avenue in the 16th arrondissement of Paris.
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**Attackers:** Five men, all arrested; investigators linked them to a nearby nightclub where the victim allegedly owed €40,000, leaving it unclear whether this was a crypto kidnapping or forced debt collection.
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**Attack Method:** On the evening of Tuesday 5 August 2025, around 7:15 p.m., five men approached the hotel guest — telling him "you give us 400,000 euros and that's it" — and forcibly took him to the area of the Arc de Triomphe.
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**Violence Used:** Detention — forcibly taken to the area of the Arc de Triomphe; he was beaten and threatened, and said the same suspects had displayed a weapon during an incident the week before.
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**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** They seized a hard drive holding €2 million in bitcoin, along with his iPhone 13 Pro Max.
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**Status:** Anti-crime police quickly located and arrested the five, who were taken into custody at the first judicial police district on extortion charges.
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LINKED SOURCES
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[url] https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/paris-un-professionnel-de-la-cryptomonnaie-agresse-dans-un-palace-des-beaux-quartiers-06-08-2025-D632HLSIFJHZNGKHHSPP6S3CPE.php
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NOTES ON THIS FILE
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* matched to sheet row 248: exact date + country, unique candidate
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ARTICLE 1
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Source LePArisien
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URL https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/paris-un-professionnel-de-la-cryptomonnaie-agresse-dans-un-palace-des-beaux-quartiers-06-08-2025-D632HLSIFJHZNGKHHSPP6S3CPE.php
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Origin reported_K&R sheet, row 248, column "Articles"
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Length 1,720 chars
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Paris: Cryptocurrency Professional Assaulted in Luxury Hotel
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By Julien Constant
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August 6, 2025, 4:17 PM
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Five men are suspected of assaulting a cryptocurrency professional and seizing a device containing 2 million euros in Bitcoin. Illustration LP/Arnaud Journois
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Another criminal case involving crypto in Paris? Or a simple case of debt collection? It's still too early to tell. Five men were arrested on the evening of Tuesday, August 5, in Paris (VIIIe). They are suspected of threatening, kidnapping, and assaulting a client of the Peninsula Hotel before stealing 2 million euros in cryptocurrency from him.
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It is 7:15 PM in this prestigious palace on Kléber Avenue in the 16th arrondissement when the staff alerts the police. They explain that one of their clients was approached by five unknown individuals who told him, "You give us 400,000 euros and that's it." The victim, who works in the cryptocurrency field, was then forcibly taken to the area of the Arc de Triomphe and assaulted.
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The anti-crime police quickly located the group and arrested the suspects. According to initial investigation findings, this team is linked to a nearby nightclub where the complainant allegedly owes 40,000 euros. The goal was to make him pay the bill by force.
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Two Million in Bitcoins
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The victim was briefly questioned. He stated that he was beaten and threatened, and that his assailants seized a hard drive containing 2 million euros in bitcoins, in addition to his iPhone 13 Pro Max. He also mentioned that a previous incident occurred the week before, during which these suspected criminals had displayed a weapon. The five suspects have been taken into custody at the first judicial police district for extortion.
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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 leparisien.fr
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URL https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/paris-un-professionnel-de-la-cryptomonnaie-agresse-dans-un-palace-des-beaux-quartiers-06-08-2025-D632HLSIFJHZNGKHHSPP6S3CPE.php
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Field url
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Retrieved 2026-09-05T13:27:25+00:00 via Wayback Machine snapshot 20260122180126, deterministic extraction (HTTP None)
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Language unknown
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Kept paragraphs headline [0] + 1-2 of 11
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Length 879 chars
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Integrity sha256 5f8a2d99a1528eb86b0af7e24a08ca1fd81b323ce15ab1c5ce1a52d0efd2030e
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Trimmed AUTO-TRIMMED, unreviewed: kept paragraphs 1-2 plus headline [0]; dropped 0 leading and 8 trailing paragraphs. Case-term hits on page: 6.
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Note live URL was BLOCKED on the first pass; text comes from an archived copy dated 2026-01-22
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Archive http://web.archive.org/web/20260122180126/https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/paris-un-professionnel-de-la-cryptomonnaie-agresse-dans-un-palace-des-beaux-quartiers-06-08-2025-D632HLSIFJHZNGKHHSPP6S3CPE.php
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Caveat retrieved from a Wayback Machine snapshot, not the live page. The
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snapshot date is in the method line; the live URL was unreadable.
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ORIGINAL (unknown, verbatim as retrieved)
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Paris : un professionnel de la cryptomonnaie agressé dans un palace des beaux quartiers - Le Parisien
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Nouvelle affaire criminelle autour de la crypto à Paris ? Ou une banale affaire de recouvrement ? Il est encore trop tôt pour le dire. Cinq hommes ont été interpellés dans la soirée, mardi 5 août, à Paris (VIIIe). Ils sont soupçonnés d’avoir menacé, enlevé et frappé, un client de l’hôtel Peninsula, avant de lui voler, deux millions d’euros en cryptomonnaie.
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Il est 19h15 dans ce prestigieux palace de l’avenue Kléber, dans le XVIe arrondissement, quand les employés préviennent la police. Ils expliquent qu’un de leurs clients a été abordé par cinq inconnus qui lui auraient dit : « Tu nous donnes 400 000 euros et c’est fini ». La victime, qui travaillerait dans le milieu de la cryptomonnaie, aurait ensuite été emmenée de force du côté de l’Arc de Triomphe et violentée.
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generated from attacks-export-Gart-website.json + reported_K&R | case 247
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