pinto, keep the interesting french updates coming.
As you will well know, scientific opinion is it came from nature. We would have to be pretty good scientists to answer where it came from but this article below shows that US labs have been playing with fire. They shouldn't be creating dangerous virus hybrid just to prove that we are at risk from them.
It comes with the preface: "Editors’ note, March 2020: We are aware that this story is being used as the basis for unverified theories that the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 was engineered. There is no evidence that this is true; scientists believe that an animal is the most likely source of the coronavirus.""An experiment that created a hybrid version of a bat coronavirus — one related to the virus that causes SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) — has triggered renewed debate over whether engineering lab variants of viruses with possible pandemic potential is worth the risks.
In an article published in Nature Medicine1 on 9 November, scientists investigated a virus called SHC014, which is found in horseshoe bats in China. The researchers created a chimaeric virus, made up of a surface protein of SHC014 and the backbone of a SARS virus that had been adapted to grow in mice and to mimic human disease. The chimaera infected human airway cells — proving that the surface protein of SHC014 has the necessary structure to bind to a key receptor on the cells and to infect them. It also caused disease in mice, but did not kill them."
https://www.nature.com/news/engineered-bat-virus-stirs-debate-over-risky-research-1.18787
