If it favours anyone, it favours Le Pen.
But her electors are already highly motivated, and those that will vote on an "anti-Arab" agenda have made up their minds long since.

There can be perverse side-effects: some eejit with an Insoumis logo twitted that it was obviously staged by "le pouvoir" to favour their candidate (Macron I suppose). Which is obvious rubbish.

On the other hand, I did wonder about the terrorist group busted in Marseille. That would be classic tactics : you've been keeping an eye on them, and you reel them in before the election. However, Mathias Fekl, the Minister of the Interior, is a Hamon supporter...

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}