The recently public report of the German secret service on the origin of the Coronavirus has collected a lot of material. While the Chinese government is talking about a “political maneuver”, the German top virologist and former consultant of the Merkel government is a violent criticism of the federal intelligence service. It is only “claims”.
As reported, the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) is of the opinion that a laboratory accident in Wuhan in Chinese was the cause of the global Corona Pandemie. According to information from “Süddeutscher Zeitung” and “Zeit”, the German foreign intelligence service came to this assessment in 2020. Angela Merkel was the German Chancellor at the time.
The office of the former Chancellor stated that all questions about government documents from that time should be addressed to the federal chancellery, because Merkel did not have them in her private office. The “In fact” back “the allegations of cover -up, a spokeswoman Merkel told the” tages mirror “.
Drosts: “There are only claims”
Now Merkel’s former adviser to defend the former head of government and expressed considerable doubts about the assessment of the federal intelligence service. The latter should make his sources public, Drost on Friday. Because it is only claims at the moment. “It doesn’t matter whether a professor or a secret service or a politician claims that it is only claims. For an evaluation according to scientific standards, the source data should be available and published, so that the analyzes for other scientists are understandable and reproducible, ”said the Berlin Charité’s head.
Based on the available data for him and his research colleagues, which are far from sufficient, there is “a much dominant probability of a natural origin”. Since the outbreak of Pandemie at the end of 2019 in the Chinese city of Wuhan, there have been discussions about whether the virus comes out of a laboratory or was transferred to people on a market. The Chinese government fiercely disputes the laboratory version.
CIA also regards Laboration thesis as likely
The background of the debate is that in China in laboratories on so-called sars-like coronaviruses. In January the American secret service CIA announced that he suspected that the coronavirus came from a laboratory. The American authority had previously stated that it could not say whether the coronavirus was of a laboratory incident or natural origin.
Source: Krone
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