Mario Monti updates Italian suicide number following Cabinet

AGI, linked here, reports as follows:

20:16 18 APR 2012

(AGI) Rome - PM Mario Monti said, "We are fighting every day to continue to avoid the fate of Greece." Monti was speaking during a press conference at the close of the Council of Ministers meeting. He initially spoke of lives which have been dramaticly interrupted and then used directly the term "suicides", updating the number. Mario Monti did not attempt to hide "the dramatic consequences of the crisis" and that it painted a grave picture which "in Italy we are trying to turn around, under very difficult conditions".