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

Cindy Charles, a 69-year-old American woman, was killed in October 2024 after being struck by a garbage truck driving against traffic in Amsterdam. The driver appeared in court on Thursday, where the victim’s husband, Ricky Fishman, attended the proceedings and expressed his forgiveness. Fishman traveled to Amsterdam to represent his late wife during the legal process following the fatal accident.

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