Italian police arrest over 100 in anti-mafia raids Entire families have been arrested in the raid, including alleged leaders Carmine, Giuseppe, and Terenzio Nazarene from the Fasciani clan and Vito and Vincenzo Triassi, who was arrested by Spanish police while holidaying with his wife in Tenerife. Police claimed the clans planned murders and kept out rival criminals as they ran gambling operations, slot machines and beachside activities. "This operation goes to the heart of a criminal system that we have often denounced and that has now be suffered a very heavy blow," said Nicola Zingaretti, the president of the Lazio region surrounding Rome. In a separate operation aimed at the Calabrian mafia or 'Ndrangheta, 65 people were arrested, including politicians, businessmen, lawyers, doctors and even prison police, in the city of Lamezia Terme near Catanzaro. Senator Piero Aiello, ally of former premier Silvio Berlusconi and member of his People of Freedom Party (PdL), was being investigated for alleged vote buying in the mafia probe, while Giampaolo Bevilacqua, another PdL official who heads the entity that manages the local airport was arrested for alleged mafia association. One of the 51 people arrested (AFP) Around 200 million euros worth of assets were seized from five businessmen in the raids which are the result of an investigation into crimes linked to the Giampà clan of the Calabrian-based 'Ndrangheta mafia syndicate. The Lamezia Terme council has been dissolved twice for mafia penetration and prosecutors are now investigating the involvement of those under arrest with several murders that occurred during a bloody mafia feud in the city between 2005 and 2011. The raids occurred a day after Franco Roberti, a Salerno prosecutor with a reputation for fighting the spread of the Naples mafia, was appointed head of Italy's anti-mafia directorate in Rome. Meanwhile the health of Cosa Nostra's former "boss of bosses" Bernardo Provenzano, who has been in a prison hospital since the beginning of June, is declining. Provenzano, 80, was arrested in 2006 after 43 years as a fugitive.