Greece’s police force was hit with a round of resignations and suspensions in the fallout from the murder of an Anti-fascist musician, and questions over whether the cops trained nazi hit squads.

Last week, a member of the Golden Dawn neo-nazi party led more than a dozen followers to attack Pavlos Fyssas, a leftwing hip-hop artist, as he walked away from a cafe.  Fyssas was mortally wounded but lived long enough to tell police who killed him.  The attack confessed and was charged over the weekend.

Now, officials announced the resignations of the inspector general for southern Greece and the general police director of central Greece.  it comes after weapons were found in a Golden Dawn office that was supposedly already searched by cops.  Another two senior police officials were suspended, and seven more officers were suspended for alleged links to Golden Dawn; a party that buys votes with “Greeks Only” food handouts, whose leaders have praised Adolph Hitler, and whose members have been linked to hundreds of violent attacks on immigrants and LGBT people.

It’s long been suspected that Golden Dawn enjoyed the protection of cops, and the Fyssas murder seems to confirm it.  The Greek newspaper Ethnos says the Special Forces trained the hit squad, armed with knives and clubs.

Defense minister Dimitris Avramopoulos ordered the investigation into the alleged collaboration.  Prime Minister Antonis Samaras's government is proposing that state funding for Golden Dawn be cut off, if a link to the Fryssas murder is established.