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Ricky Fishman's wife was run over by a garbage truck: ‘I wrote the driver: if you want my forgiveness, I forgive you’

Ricky Fishman's wife was run over by a garbage truck: ‘I wrote the driver: if you want my forgiveness, I forgive you’

Ricky Fishman traveled to Amsterdam for the trial of a garbage truck driver who fatally struck his wife, Cindy Charles, in October 2024. The driver faces charges of reckless driving after turning against traffic and hitting Charles as she crossed a street near the Prinsengracht. Fishman intends to exercise his right to speak in court as part of his healing process and has expressed a message of forgiveness toward the driver.

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