This vacuum in Paris plays straight into le Pen's hands Next week's presidential elections will confirm what many Europeans fear, that France is moving inexorably to the right Will Hutton Sunday April 15, 2007 The Observer (UK) Nicolas Sarkozy, the front runner for the French presidency, has suggested that paedophilia is an incurable genetic disposition, that rioting Arab youths are scum and that an Orwellian sounding ministry for immigration and national identity is a good idea. Segolene Royal, his socialist challenger, wants the French to celebrate family, work and the flag. And on Friday, a suppressed official poll suggested that...