The Tunisian authorities arrested 33 members of the family toppled leader Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, as demonstrators gathered again on Thursday to demand the anchor on the party of former dictator to power.
The arrests were announced on national television, which showed footage of luxury watches, jewelry and credit cards seized during raids on the homes of the former first family.
The authorities have opened an investigation against them for the plunder of national resources, he said.
The mass arrest of Ben Ali's family showed how their influence has declined dramatically since he fled to Saudi Arabia on Friday after weeks of rioting in the North African nation.
Charges include purchases of goods and illegal transfers of currency, while the covered include Ben Ali, his wife Leila Trabelsi, his brothers and their children, according to official sources quoted by the broadcaster.
Allegations of corruption and revelations of the lifestyle of a wealthy family helped Ben Ali anger against his government fuel than 23 years, which culminated in his overthrow.
About 1,000 people demonstrated in the center of the city against Ben Ali Democratic Constitutional Rally (RCD) in a new wave of anger at the presence of pillars of the RCD in the transitional government said Monday.
And as the new Cabinet prepared for their first meeting of the post-Ben Ali on the night of Thursday, a minister of the UCD, Zouheir M'dhaffer, announced it had withdrawn from the government.
M'dhaffer, which was Minister for Administrative Development, said he resigned "to protect the vital interests of the nation, and in favor of democratic change in the country."
Four other ministers - three trade unionists and opposition leader - was released Tuesday because of the presence of party officials from the former regime.
Eight new ministers who were members of the RCD to leave the party on Thursday as interim president has promised a "complete break" with the past.
"People want the government has been shot," shouted the demonstrators outside the headquarters of the party, carrying signs that read "We are not afraid of you as traitors" and "RCD-Out."
The troops fired warning shots to prevent protesters scaled a wall around the part of officers.
Every day for 74 years, Ben Ali has avoided large-scale protests have called for banning the RCD that essentially run the Tunisia since its independence in 1956.
Thursday was the first event enables security forces to achieve the party's offices where army tanks stationed for several days had been eliminated.
Approximately 100 judges and lawyers to agree separately to ask for "the independence of the judiciary and the magistracy, they said, had served the interests of Ben Ali and his family.
Before the inaugural meeting of new cabinet on Thursday, Mr. Fouad Mebazaa interim president hailed "a revolution of dignity and freedom" and praised the "martyrs" killed in the attempt to keep a lid on demonstrations.
The government says 78 people were killed when security forces tried to suppress the protests began in mid-December, but the UN says that about 100 deaths.
Mebazaa said the government's first priority would be to produce an amnesty law to release all political prisoners jailed in Ben Ali, and he promised to ensure media freedom and judicial independence.
"Together, we can write a new page in the history of our country," he said in a televised speech Wednesday night.
transitional government has promised presidential and parliamentary elections free and fair within six months, but gave no specific dates. According to the constitution of the North African state, the elections shall be held within two months.
The tumultuous events in Tunisia have inspired dissidents in the Arab world and sparked protests in countries like Algeria, Jordan and Egypt.
There was a wave of suicides across the region in apparent imitation of self-immolation of a candidate 26 years, Tunisian, Mohammed Bouazizi, whose only event last month began the movement against Ben Ali .