The Fourniret case has sparked calls to bring down the police and legal barriers between EU countries, says Ann Cahill.

French police began digging for clues today in the garden of a former home of a confessed serial killer who claimed last week to have murdered nine people and buried several of the bodies.

A FRENCH avowed serial killer has led police to the bodies of a 12-year-old girl and 22-year-old woman he admitted having killed and buried on the grounds of his former home 15 years earlier, prosecutors said.

Confessed child killer Michel Fourniret has admitted killing two more teenage girls, bringing to nine the number of murders acknowledged by the former forest ranger, prosecutors said.