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Legal France is completely groggy. Public opinion has witnessed the Outreau and Colonna trials. Legal professionals have experienced twenty procedural reforms in twenty years. Legislators have reacted to cases in the news with great fussiness. These legal texts are only hasty answers aiming to satisfy public opinion and not the result of a serious reflection. They can have pernicious effects: they bring more complexity but less liberty and therefore produce a system in crisis which requires a broad reform. This is demonstrated by a positive law analysis around the theme ‘criminal justice and liberties’.