A 62-year-old Frenchman who has confessed to killing six girls in France and Belgium yesterday admitted to burying two of his victims at his former home, French prosecutors said. Michel Fourinet told French investigators during questioning in Belgium that he had buried two girls at a chateau that he once owned in the heavily wooded Ardennes border region, said Reims prosecutor Yves Charpenel. He was later charged yesterday with the murder of the girls, Belgian prosecutor Arnoud d'Aspremont Lynden said. Police were patrolling the Sautou chateau in Donchery yesterday to "secure the site" and were expected to begin searching for the bodies by this morning at the latest, Charpenel explained. Fourniret, who has been in Belgian custody since June 2003 on suspicion of abduction of minors and sexual misconduct, on Wednesday confessed to "six murders of girls" in Belgium and France between 1987 and 2001. But Belgian prosecutor Anne Thily hinted that he could be responsible for the deaths of about 10 victims, several of whom were believed to be buried on the grounds of the chateau. The shocking revelations came barely a week after child murderer and rapist Marc Dutroux was sentenced to life imprisonment at the end of a harrowing 17-week trial that reopened the most sordid chapter in Belgium's history. Dutroux was found guilty of the abduction and rape of six girls in the mid-1990s, four of whom died. One of Fourniret's victims was 12-year-old Elisabeth Brichet, whose mother was a founder and leader of the so-called White Movement launched by the parents of missing Belgian children after Dutroux's arrest in 1996. The Frenchman has confessed to kidnapping, trying to rape and ultimately strangling Brichet, Belgian prosecutors said. Belgian court sources said Brichet's body was one of the two on the Sautou property. The sources added that contrary to media reports, Fourniret had never been a forestry worker, but instead was a carpenter and dining hall worker. Fourniret's wife Monique Olivier, who had given investigators details about the rapes and killings, has also accused her husband of murdering an adult and two other girls who went missing during that time period in eastern France. Belgian prosecutors said he had denied any involvement in the disappearance of the two girls. **PHOTO CAPTION*** 62-year-old Frenchman Michel Fourinet, confessed the killing.