Halle Berry and Salma Hayek witness

Actress Halle Berry has called on her pal Salma Hayek to help support her legal bid to escape the wave of American paparazzi and move to France for the sake of her young daughter.
A run-in with a cameraman taking photos of her child outside the four year old’s Los Angeles school in May prompted Berry, who is in the midst of a bitter custody battle with ex Gabriel Aubry, to step up her fight to relocate Nahla to her fiance Olivier Martinez’s native France.
She claimed the snapper showdown was evidence the child would be better protected in Europe, where child privacy laws are different, and now she has called her pal Hayek, who lives in France and has a daughter the same age, as an expert witness to back her up.

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On Thursday Berry’s lawyers allegedly filed a declaration from Hayek, in which she testifies that her life in France is more bearable since laws against paparazzi are far more rigid, reports TMZ.com.
Berry’s desire to leave the country began last year when a man was arrested for trespassing outside her California home for the third time in as many days. The stalker has since been sentenced to more than 12 months behind bars.