 Belgian police say they will dig under the house if necessary |
Belgian police have started using a mechanical digger to search the garden of self-confessed French serial killer Michel Fourniret. Officers are searching for the bodies of up to three of his alleged victims.
Investigations are continuing into how many people were killed by Fourniret and his wife Monique Olivier in the 1980s and 1990s, AFP news agency says.
Fourniret, 62, a carpenter, was arrested in Belgium in June 2003. He confessed to at least eight murders.
He has been charged with two murders in Belgium and is under investigation for the deaths of six girls in France. All of the victims were female, including young girls.
Ms Olivier, 56, was charged with the murder of three women after she confessed to having lured three young women to her home between 1992 and 1997, knowing that Fourniret was going to kill them.
She is in custody in Dinant, Belgium, where her husband is being held, accused of being an accomplice to Fourniret's crimes.
Belgian police said they were starting excavations in the garden at the house in Sart-Custinne in southern Belgium.
But they said they would dig under the house if necessary, according to AFP. The operation is expected to take two or three weeks.
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