Genuine question: are the wingtips of an A380 visible from the LHS on the flightdeck?
Would have thought it easily possible that they might not be.
Seeing as everybody is throwing their two pence in, I think ATC should have spotted the threat here. "Caution the CRJ parking on stand xx, when he's on stand, continue taxi..." From the audio, the AF gets a number of contradictory taxi instructions for taxiways further on, meaning one of the pilots could have been 'heads in' checking the taxi chart at the time of collision.
I believe that a number of airfields make follow-me cars mandatory for A380 ops.