Pierre Fernand Bodein (born December 30, 1947, in Obernai) is a French criminal and spree killer who, since 1969, has alternated stays between psychiatric hospitals and prisons.
On April 11, 2007, the trial of Bodein began at the cour d'assises in Strasbourg, in an adjoining room of the court specifically arranged for the occasion.
He was the first prisoner in France to be sentenced to life imprisonment, followed up a year later by Michel Fourniret in May 2008, then in January 2015 by Nicolas Blondiau.
The complicity of Fuhrmann and Remetter, two fellow Yenish people, in the kidnapping, murder and rape of Jeanne-Marie Kegelin was not retained, but the Attorney General demanded they receive sentences ranging from 3 to 30 years.
The lawyer also felt that "those who, by their spirit, their politics and their abstention, allowed the death of Jeanne-Marie Kegelin are much more responsible than Pierre Bodein."
On November 13, 2014, the European Court of Human Rights said that the conviction of Bodein did not violate Article 3 (the convicted person alleged that the sentence was inhumane and with degrading treatment), nor Article 6 (Bodein complained about the lack of motives of the cour d'assises' judges) of the European Convention of Human Rights.