On 27 February 2008 , he called on all European newspapers to print the Muhammad cartoons with the explanation : " We also think they 're pathetic , but the use of press freedom is no reason to resort to violence . " In July 2009 , Schäuble said in an interview that Berlin would have to " clarify whether our constitutional state is sufficient for confronting new threats " . He said that the legal problems his office had to struggle with " extend all the way to extreme cases such as so-called targeted killing ... Imagine someone knew what cave Osama bin Laden is sitting in . A remote-controlled missile could then be fired in order to kill him . " The interviewer said : " Germany 's federal government would probably send a public prosecutor there first , to arrest bin Laden . " Schäuble responded : " And the Americans would execute him with a missile , and most people would say : ' thank God ' . " In the wake of the deadly attacks in Paris on the offices of satirical publication '' Charlie Hebdo '' and a kosher supermarket in January 2015 , Schäuble and his French counterpart Michel Sapin wrote a letter to the European Commission , calling for continent-wide legislation to better trace financial flows and freeze the assets of terrorists living in the European Union
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